BT40 Plastic Tool Fingers for Carousel Holder Tool Magazine CNC Machine

BT40 Plastic Tool Fingers for Carousel Holder Tool Magazine CNC Machine

These bt40 plastic holders are cnc tool changer carousel holders fingers grippers, widely used in carousel tool magazine for auto tool changer cnc machine.
These plastic tool fingers are finger for BT40 tool holders, we can also supply you BT30 replacement fingers.

Tool Fingers Holders BT 40 Specifications:
1. Made in China, famous brand
2. Imported USA Dupont white plastic material, high quality, reinforced and anti-explosion.
3. Dynamic balance grade:  G2.5, 30000rpm
4. Yaw precision: 0.005mm

BT40 toolchanger grippers are available in stock for quick delivery. 

Rico CNC supplies high-quality CNC toolings and accessories; ISO30, BT, HSK tool holders; CNC replacement finger for many automatic tool exchangers.
Rico is able to help you order the correct CNC tool grippers for your ATC tool magazines.
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3 In 1 Alloy Steel Wood Lathe Knife CNC Woodturning Cutters

3 In 1 Alloy Steel Wood Lathe Knife CNC Woodturning Cutters

This woodworking lathing tool is a newest design knife for CNC wood turning machine. We called it Three in One CNC woodworking lathe knife. It includes chisel tool steel knife body, alloy steel knife blade, and chisel tool steel knife pressure clamp plate. Lower price, but you are using a alloy steel knife, long time using.

Alloy Steel Wood Lathe Cutter Material: 

Knife holder: chisel tool steel

Knife blade: alloy steel

Size: 25*25*200mmBlade Hardness: 67-69 HRC  (Harder than HSS 60-66HRC)

Wood Turning Knife Features:

Super hard knife blade, its hardness is just less than tungsten steel, but many times better than white steel. Also, it can keep the same hardness under 600 centigrade.

CNC woodturning cutter owns ideal processing life, is more than 4 times compared to high speed steel, and it has nearly 200 mm in length.

Logical structure: 3 in 1 structure, chisel steel body and clamp, alloy steel blade, make your processing more stable.

Quick grind: the grinding surface is very little, can be grind with normal white jade wheel. Not easy to burn blade, don't worry about too much grinding heat.

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ISO 30 Tool Cradle ATC Gripper Fingers Plastic Tool Holder Fingers for I...

ISO 30 Tool Cradle ATC Gripper Fingers Plastic Tool Holder Fingers for ISO30 Tooling

ISO30 Tool changer Finger also called ISO30 Tool Cradle, ISO30 Tool Holder Fork, ISO-tool grippers or ISO30 tool clips.
These replacement tool holder fingers are plastic fingers for iso30 tooling, widely used in HSD spindles for Woodworking CNC machinesand others, like Biesse, Flexicam, Multicam cnc routers etc.

ISO 30 Plastic Tool Holder Fingers Specifications:
1. Made in China, famous brand
2. Imported USA Dupont white plastic material, high quality, reinforced and anti-explosion.
3. Alloy steel block casting inside, reinforced structure, has high loading capacity, also with steel positioning pins.4. Dynamic balance grade:  G2.5, 30000rpm
5. Yaw precision: 0.005mm

ISO 30 tool changer fingers are available in stock for quick delivery. 

Rico CNC supplies high-quality CNC toolings and accessories; ISO30, BT, HSK tool holders; CNC router ATC gripper fingers for many automatic tool exchangers.
Rico is able to help you order the correct ATC plastic tool holding fingers for your ATC tool magazines.
Payment can be made by Western Union, Paypal, T/T.

Welcome your inquiry!

HSK Router Cradle Toolholder Clip Tool Changer Gripper for HSK 63F

HSK Router Cradle Toolholder Clip Tool Changer Gripper for HSK 63F

HSK tool holder gripper also called toolholder gripper fork, HSK cradle, toolholder clip, tool holder finger, tool forks etc.
HSK 63 Toolchanger Gripper used on HSK 63F Toolchangers. These tool changer grippers are used on all Biesse, CNT Motion, CR Onsrud, DMS, Flexicam, Multicam, Northwood HSK63F toolchangers. They are an exact interchange tool holder gripper.
These tool holder cradle widely used in auto tool changer CNC routers, so also called router cradle.

HSK Tool Changer Gripper Specifications:
1. Made in China, famous brand
2. Imported USA Dupont white plastic material, high quality, reinforced and anti-explosion.
3. Alloy steel block casting inside, reinforced structure, has high loading capacity, also with steel positioning pins.
4. Dynamic balance grade:  G2.5, 30000rpm
5. Yaw precision: 0.005mm

HSK63 grippers are available in stock for quick delivery. 

Rico CNC supplies high-quality tooling and accessories; ISO30, BT, HSK tool holders; CNC router tool holder grippers for many automatic tool exchangers.
Rico is able to help you order the correct ATC gripper fingers for your ATC unit.
Payment can be made by Western Union, Paypal, T/T.
Welcome your inquiry!

7 Tips for CNC Router Aluminum Cutting Success

7 Tips for CNC Router Aluminum Cutting Success

Folks often ask whether a CNC Router can cut aluminum. They’re used to seeing the primarily cut wood and plastics. My answer to this question is always, “Yes, if you do it right.” CNC Router machines are suitable for fabricating with wood, plastic, aluminum and more.

There are a couple of things to remember about how aluminum is different from wood or plastics. First, they have a much smaller “sweet spot” for optimal feeds and speeds. If you leave the sweet spot, cutters start breaking, wearing out a lot faster, and surface finish is poor at best. In fact, there are several sweet spots depending on what you want to accomplish: Metals have much smaller sweet spots (narrower range of acceptable feeds and speeds) than wood or plastics. The second thing is that for aluminum, there is a “stickiness” factor. Aluminum wants to stick to the tool. In fact, it will do so to the point that it welds itself to the tool. Once you have gummy aluminum deposits on your cutting edges, that tool is not long for this world, especially not at 20,000 rpm or more. Despite these challenges, you can cut aluminum very successfully on almost any router.

Here are 7 tips for CNC Router Aluminum Cutting Success:

1. Don’t be in a hurry A CNC Router Machine can cut aluminum, but it isn’t the ideal tool for hogging out big aerospace parts like wing spars. The price you’ll pay for success is slowing things down. Note that I don’t mean to literally slow down your feeds and speeds, but your overall Material Removal Rates will be less than what can be achieved with a purpose-built CNC mill. So relax and let the machine do its thing. At the very least, a good sized CNC Router can fit a lot more material on its table than most any CNC mill. Load it up, press the green button, and walk away.

2. Use matched Feeds and Speeds One of the issues for most CNC Routers is the spindle goes fast compared to a lot of CNC mills. Your average new CNC mill maxes out at 10,000 rpm and many CNC Routers can’t go that slow. Life for them begins at circa 20,000 rpm. The next couple of tips focus on solutions for this problem.

3. Use carbide coated cutters bits One way to bump up the recommended rpm is to be sure you’re using cutters that are happy going that fast. The measurement that determines this is called Surface Speed (for more on this and many other feeds and speeds hints and tips). Carbide cutters can go much faster than HSS cutters. Forget HSS and Cobalt for the most part. A coating, such as TiAlN allows the cutter to go even faster. Shop for carbide TiAlN coated cutters. They cost a little more, but they can change your results so much it’s darned well worth it. For example, say I need to cut a slot using a 1/4” endmill. If I select an HSS Endmill, G-Wizard tells me it wants to run 5877 rpm and my 20,000 rpm router spindle won’t go that slow. So I switch to a TiAlN Carbide Endmill. Now the recommendation is 16897 rpm–we’re much closer. This is with a Surface Speed of 1106 SFM. You may be able to find a more aggressive SFM recommendation for your manufacturer’s tooling. With aluminum, I’d go ahead and try 20,000 rpm for this cut. It’ll probably be just fine.

4. Use smaller diameter cutters The other way to bump up the rpms is to use smaller diameter cutters. Forget about 1/2″ endmills. Drop down to 1/4″ maximum and typically less. Because you’re going to smaller diameters, you want more rigid cutters lest tool deflection starts to be a problem. Carbide is much more rigid than HSS, so this is one more reason to favor carbide. The moral of the story is to carefully match your tooling to the capabilities of your machine.

5. Lubricate with a Mist Provide lubrication to cut down on the tendency for the chips to stick to the cutting edges. You pretty much have to use some kind of lubricant. In fact, buy a mister to provide air blast and coolant mist. It’s easy and inexpensive. Sometimes, it just isn’t possible to use mist but you still need to cut some aluminum. If you’re cutting very thin aluminum, or taking very shallow passes, you may be able to get by without lubrication. Do some tests and see.

6. Don’t slow down the feedrate too much! If you go too slowly on your feedrate, you run the risk of making your tool rub rather than cutting. This is a much bigger risk for CNC Router users than mill users simply because the spindle is going so fast. In order to maintain recommended chip-loads with rpms that high you’ll have to keep the cutting moving smartly. Our 3/16” cutter at 21000 rpm wants to feed at 91 IPM, for example. If you slow down too much, say to 1/4 of that, many will think they’re babying the machine and tool. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you wind up going slow enough that the cutter starts rubbing at 20K rpm, you’re going to heat up the whole works and drastically shorten your tool life.

7. If your CNC machine can’t feed fast enough, use fewer flutes and increase cut width Normally, we use 3 or fewer flutes with aluminum anyway–don’t try a four or more flute cutter in aluminum! The reason is that aluminum produces especially large chips. The fewer the flutes, the more space between the cutting edges, and the more room for the big chips to escape and be blown away. With too many flutes, the chips back in too tightly, jam up the flutes, and pretty soon you have a broken cutter.

Conclusion for CNC Router Cutting Aluminum: Machining aluminum with a CNC Router is absolutely doable with most any router. It’s just a matter of matching your machine’s capabilities to the “sweet spot” feeds and speeds requirements of the material through wise selection of tooling and cutting parameters.

If any interests in CNC Router Cutting Machines, welcome to contact us, more information will be sent.

How to protect the CNC plastic tool holders from breaking?

How to protect the CNC plastic tool holders from breaking?

CNC plastic tool holders also called tool holder cradle, tool holder gripper, tool holder clip, tool holder fork, tool holder finger, cnc toolclip etc.
Some ATC (auto tool changer) CNC router owners have problem of breaking the plastic tool holders continuously. What cause these cnc plastic tool fingers broken? And how to solve this cnc toolclip damage problem?

1, You have to clean the tool holders and the inside of the spindle regularly. If you don't, the tool holoders will stick. Even though the air release is on, the holder will stick and it will pull hard and possibly break the plastic clip off.
When the machine tool changes it relies on the plastic fingers to have enough strength to pull the tool out of the spindle. Before use the machine, you can press tool release button to feel any force when release the tool holder.
If you can install an air purifier to reduce the humidity in the valves, it is good to the spindle and the toolholders, so is the cnc plastic forks.

2, CNC gripper fingers breakage due to embrittlement of the plastic from old age or heat cold cycles in the shop. Usually the plastic tool holder grippers after 3 years using, it is easy to break. You can get some new gripper replacements and installing them, if any of the new fingers break then you will know for sure that they are not breaking due to age. By the way, to reduce the aging, you had better not put the ATC cnc machine near the shop door, avoid direct sunshine.

3. What if the knock out at the end of the draw bar stroke has changed and is not there. Thus the tool can stick inside the spindle but the plastic fingers are too weak to break the tool holder free.
What if the switches on top of the draw bar cylinder are out of adjustment. The spindle may go up before the tool is completely released. Again the fingers could break.

4, Re-calibrate the tool change Z height, make sure the plastic tool holder fingers seem to be exactly aligned in relation to the tool holder groove. If the tool finger position is not right, the holder would hit the fingers, then gripper finger damage.

5, Carouse tool magazine work with position sensor switch and motor and gear, after long time use, the gear wear, or the switch damage, this will affect on the tool holder fork position, then lead to tool fork damage.
So before starting the machining job, check the tool magazine go home, check the spindle tool changing position whether is right. Also check the tool clips is there any one loose.

After you check these, you will found the problem and solve the problem well.
Then machine preventive maintenance is very important. Pay more attention to tool maitenance, clean the cones, the spindle end, fork fixture, less plastic cnc forks will damage.
Different tool changer fingers are available in stock for quick delivery. 

Rico CNC supplies high-quality CNC toolings and accessories; ISO30, BT, HSK tool holders; CNC router ATC gripper fingers for many automatic tool exchangers.
Rico is able to help you order the correct ATC plastic tool holding fingers for your ATC tool magazines.
Payment can be made by Western Union, Paypal, T/T.

Welcome your inquiry!

Six Common Kinds of Tool Holder Forks for CNC Router Machines

Six Common Kinds of Tool Holder Forks for CNC Router Machines

CNC tool forks also called CNC tool holder fork, tool holder clip or tool holder gripper, is for your CNC tool holder, and usually work with Carousel Type Auto Tool Changer or Linear Type Auto Tool Changer. CNC tool holder grippers stay attached to the tool changer and hold the tool holders. These original OEM CNC plastic forks are found on many woodworking CNC routers, also Biesse machine.

Today, we are going to introduce six common kinds of tool forks. They are ISO30 white tool fork, HSK63F white tool clip, BT30 white tool gripper, DIN30 black tool holder fork, BT30 black tool finger, and BT40 black tool cradle.


ISO30 White Tool Forks for ATC Toolchanger Holders

ISO30 Tool changer Finger also called ISO30 Tool Cradle, ISO30 Tool Holder Fork, ISO-tool grippers or ISO30 tool clips.

These replacement tool holder fingers are plastic fingers for iso30 tooling, widely used in HSD spindles for Woodworking CNC machines and others, like Biesse, Flexicam, Multicam CNC routers etc.

ISO 30 tool changer fingers are available in stock for quick delivery. 

HSK63F White Router Cradle Toolholder Clip Tool Changer Gripper

HSK tool holder gripper also called toolholder gripper fork, HSK cradle, toolholder clip, tool holder finger, tool forks etc.

HSK 63 Toolchanger Gripper used on HSK 63F Toolchangers. These tool changer grippers are used on all Biesse, CNT Motion, CR Onsrud, DMS, Flexicam, Multicam, Northwood HSK63F toolchangers. They are the exact interchange tool holder gripper.

These tool holder cradles are widely used in auto tool changer CNC routers, so also called router cradle.

HSK63 grippers are available in stock for quick delivery.

BT 30 White Tool Holder Clips for ATC Toolchanger

This white plastic BT30 CNC tool holder clip with Zinc Alloy insert, it is strong enough for standing heavy tool holder chuck. It is better than black BT30 fork. But need a little bigger area for the tool magazine. It is used with tool magazine for BT30 tool holders.

This white CNC tool holder clip BT 30 looks like the white ISO30 tool forks, the fix part is same, but the chuck diameter is different.

BT30 Toolchanger Clips Applications:
1. BT30 CNC Tool Clips apply for any size auto tool changer CNC routers, CNC milling machines etc. 
2. BT30 ATC tool clip application industry: hole drilling, milling, engraving, high precision and widely used for high precision processing.

DIN30 Black ISO 30 Plastic Tool Holder Grippers for ATC HSD Spindle

This DIN 30 toolholder gripper is another kind of ISO30 CNC tool holder fork, is for your ISO30 CNC tool holder, widely used with Disk Type Auto Tool Changer or Linear Type Auto Tool Changer.

DIN30 tool changer grippers application:
1. Tool holder grippers apply for any size auto tool changer CNC router.  
2. CNC tool holder plastic grippers application industry: hole drilling, milling, engraving, high precision and widely used for high precision CNC processing.

BT30 Black CNC Tool Change Forks for Auto Tool Changer Spindle

BT Tooling comes in a range of sizes designated as BT 30, BT 40, BT 50, etc. BT30 toolholder forks or BT40 CNC tool forks, is for your BT CNC tool holders. Used with your CNC machine with Carousel Type Auto Tool Changer or Linear Type Auto Tool Changer. These original plastic forks are found on many vertical machining center, CNC milling machines, woodworking CNC centers and big foam mold making CNC routers.

BT 30 Style Toolchanger Gripper Forks or Fingers Applications:
1. BT30 Tool Holder clips apply for any size auto tool changer CNC routers, CNC milling machines etc. 
2. BT30 Toolchanger fork application industry: hole drilling, milling, engraving, high precision and widely used for high precision processing.

BT40 Black Tool Fingers for Carousel Holder Tool Magazine

These bt40 plastic holders are CNC tool changer carousel holders fingers grippers, widely used in carousel tool magazine for auto tool changer CNC machine.
These plastic tool fingers are for BT40 tool holders, we can also supply you BT30 replacement fingers.

BT40 toolchanger grippers are available in stock for quick delivery.


Rico CNC supplies high quality CNC tools and accessories. ISO30, BT, HSK tool holders, CNC router ATC gripper fingers for many automatic tool exchangers.
Rico is able to help you order the correct ATC plastic tool holding fingers for your ATC tool magazines.