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Custom Tool Solution Helps Launch Satellite Program
Faced with aggressive deadlines to deliver specialized satellite parts, San Diego’s Vanguard Composites Group started a search. They needed to reduce the time required to machine thick composite sandwich panels before assembly. The large flat panels, made in a variety of measured thicknesses, serve as support structures for satellite antenna reflectors. Vanguard is one of […]
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Super Drills
More sophisticated drills enable shops to tackle superalloys with ease No one can put as fine a point on how complex drilling has become during the past few decades than a veteran machinist like Peter Diamantis. Diamantis recalled that when he started out 30 years ago drills held a status in the tooling hierarchy not […]
Composites Machining for the Lockheed Martin F-35
How can precision machining be made less expensive? That question—in one form or another—occupies much of the attention of various Lockheed Martin engineers. If the same kind of precision five-axis milling used in the F-35 skin parts could be applied cost-effectively throughout the plane, the result would be higher-performance aircraft that are far less expensive […]
Tool Type and Geometries
Hole ambitions? Optimize! Customize!
Matching the drill tool to the job can save thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars. For six decades, “you get what you pay for” has been the marketing mantra for manufacturers and suppliers of composite products who argue that, despite their historically high initial cost, composites are the superior product in terms of overall […]
AMAMCO Tool
AMAMCO Tool has built a legacy as a custom solutions provider for more than four decades. A privately held manufacturer of machining tools, AMAMCO has expertise in cutting tools for composite materials that are uniquely specified by aerospace, automotive, marine and other industries. It serves both private and public customers, as well as Department of […]
Cutting Tools for Composites