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Solid Carbide Slitting Saw or

When you get into machining, the first tool often used is an end mill. It’s simple, it’s fairly straightforward on purpose, and it’s the universal standard tool for machining. But, we all know that that is just the beginning – tool boxes fill up because there are an endless number of options for tooling. One tool that is often misunderstood, or even disregarded, is the solid carbide slitting saw. While these saws are often relegated to very specific operations, they can be an invaluable addition to your shop.

THE MILL’S PARTING TOOL

Sometimes you might be dealing with a thin part or something that has a challenging feature to hold on one side, making that part a challenge to finish on the back side. A solid carbide slitting saw gives you the unique opportunity (at least on a 3-axis mill) to get to the underside of a part. This means that you can use a solid carbide slitting saw to cut off a part and finish it by hand. While the surface finish might not be as nice as a TTS Superfly Cutter, this process can save the day with those thin or hard-to-hold parts.

RELIEF SLOTS

Relief slots are features in a part that allow it to clamp around something. Adding a relief slot give a part the ability to move slightly without compromising the integrity of the part too much. While you can use a tiny end mill, over a massive number of passes to create a relief slot, a solid carbide slitting saw can often do so in just one or two passes. This is exactly what solid carbide slitting saws were designed to do – create wide, deep, thin slots in parts quickly and without destroying your cutting tool.

SLOTTING AROUND A PART

When you need to cut a slot around a part, you have two options; either use a fourth axis and an end mill, or use a solid carbide slitting saw. The fourth axis option works, but requires extra workholding considerations and most likely moving a part from a vise to the fourth axis in the middle of the cutting process. A solid carbide slitting saw can make that slot in the same setup with only a tool change. While they are often forgotten about, solid carbide slitting saws make a valuable addition to a quickly-filling toolbox.

Solid carbide slitting saw, fine toothing, for milling slots, cutting-off or cutting to length in almost all steel materials and non-ferrous metals.

Solid carbide slitting saw features and benefits:

Herringbone tooth with small chip space, DIN 1840 A.
Hollow ground on the face.

International comparison of workpiece materials.

Solid carbide slitting saw are recommended for slotting the fragile and hard materials. A tooth form is suitable especially for thin saw blades with tooth pitch from 0,8 mm to 3,0 mm. Cutting edge is very sharp. Chip clearance is reduced and it cannot remove longer chips away from the cutting area efficiently. Solid carbide slitting saws in both high speed and super high speed steels suitable for milling, and grooving steels and alloys on manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic machines.

Precision screw-slotting saws – tooth form “A” Circular saws

In both high speed and super high speed steel suitable for slotting screws in all types of steels and alloys. The solid carbide slitting saw blades are all flat ground (without hub) and the entire range is executed with tooth form “A”. The saw blade range is ø 80 mm, ø 100 mm and ø 125 mm. Blade thicknesses range from 0,7 mm – 2 mm in decimal increments.

Precision saws for jewelry – tooth form “A” Circular saws

In both high speed and super high speed steel suitable for goldsmith´s cutting and machining purposes. The solid carbide slitting saw blades are all with hollow ground (with a hub) and the entire range is executed with tooth pitches finer than 1 millimetre.

Precision saws for tube-cutters – tooth form “Bw” Circular saws

in both high speed and super high steel suitable for cutting tubes sized ø 10 mm – ø 325 mm, with wall thickness ranging 2 mm – 10 mm, in both standard steels and high alloy steels (stainless). The solid carbide slitting saw blade range is ø 63 mm, ø 68 mm and ø 75 mm. Blade thicknesses are 1,2 mm, 1,6 mm and 2,0 mm and the tooth form is “Bw”.