How well does diamond tooling work for boring, honing or milling CGI, and will ceramic also work?
Diamond does work for milling, but you have a severe speed penalty there. So we didn’t see that as a viable method for the milling process. It’s possible to use PCBN tooling for rough boring but then you are stuck with a speed limit there and you’re still stuck with insert density. Consequently, we think we have a faster solution for these processes. However, the verdict is still out on ceramics. We think there may be some potential areas to use ceramics but right now we’re not really actively pursuing that.
