Thread Milling vs. Tapping: What’s the Difference?

Thread Milling vs. Tapping, just what are the difference between them and when should each be used? There are some distinct differences between thread milling and tapping. This article explains the advantages and disadvantages of each so that you can make an educated decision about the strategy that will work best for your parts.

Tapping: Advantages and Disadvantages

The greatest advantage of tapping is speed. High-speed tapping centers set up with a rigid tap can thread holes in a fraction of the time it would take to thread mill the same holes. Additionally, tapping can thread deeper holes in harder materials such as steel.

A significant disadvantage of tapping is that a different size tap is required for each size hole that needs to be threaded. This can consume a large number of valuable, but limited positions in the tool magazine. Plus, having to switch tapping tools for all of the various size holes increases the cycle time.

Another disadvantage is that tapping does not allow for adjusting thread fit. Once the hole is tapped, the size and position of the thread is final. Also, rigid taps are used exclusively for interior threading of holes and cannot be used to mill threads onto the outside of a post or screw.

Finally, since the initial portion of a rigid tap is designed to plunge into material rather than making perfect threads, these tools are best for tapping through holes rather than blind tapping, which is threading holes that end within the material. In the case of blind tapping, the deepest threads in the hole are made with the part of the tool that is designed to plunge rather than thread. To complete these last areas as perfect threads, a secondary finishing tool is required and results in longer cycle times.

As general rule of thumb, it is best to employ tapping when you need to make a lot of holes with few variations in size.

Thread Milling: Advantages and Disadvantages

The primary advantage of thread milling is the ability to control the fit. A threaded hole is milled at a high RPM and the tool helixes into a previously-milled hole. So, the machine operator has the ability to adjust thread size using a strategy similar to using an end mill, rather than a drill bit to make a hole. This can be advantageous if there are tight tolerances on the thread sizes or if allowances need to be made for finishing such as painting.

Also, a single tool can be used in thread milling to make a wide range of hole sizes. This reduces both the cost of tooling and the amount of time associated with tool changes. Plus, a thread mill can create interior and exterior threads, right-hand and left-hand threads, as well as very large threaded holes (e.g. pipe threads). In the case of the latter, this eliminates the need to invest in a large rigid tap to thread big holes.

Furthermore, the thread mill gives the user the ability to design custom threads without having to invest in custom taps which can be very expensive and require long lead times. In the machining of very shallow blind threads in thin materials, the thread mill allows for maximum threads in a very short distance.

The one disadvantage of thread milling is you need to be equipped with a high-speed spindle in order to do it properly, such as the ones found in our line of high-speed milling machines with spindle speeds up 60,000 RPM.

The Bottom Line
If you need more flexibility, have a range of thread sizes and types and require the ability to adjust thread fits, thread milling is the best choice. If speed is your requirement, then rigid tapping is what you need.

DATRON offers a complete line of thread mills for various thread size ranges. We also offer a combination-style thread mill that machines the hole and the threads it in a single pass, eliminating the need to machine the hole with a drill or mill first, change tools, and then thread the hole as a secondary step. This saves time and associated tool costs.

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As we all know, devices used in medicine and healthcare must meet the highest standards of performance and reliability. This is as it should be, but medical products are more than merely practical tools or appliances. Although there are many different types and applications, to the greatest degree possible they also must satisfy human emotional and aesthetic requirements as well. And that’s where inspired designs comes in.

We’re going to look at the top five design principles that the smart product engineer should keep in mind when creating new solutions for safeguarding health and well-being. Using these tips will help your next project to be easier to use, safer and more successful in the marketplace.

1. Make it Easy to Clean

Depending on their use, medical products may be exposed to bodily fluids, alcohols, acids and reagents, as well as biologicals like viruses and bacteria. Therefore any product in such an environment must be easily cleaned, and this necessity will in turn affect the product’s design.

It’s common for many products to be made via plastic injection molding, and that means there will be housings and enclosures separated by minor gaps. If these are unavoidable, then there are a few mitigating strategies to consider. Actual sealed gap should be as tight as possible, although these seams can be covered with overlapping features or false covers if necessary. Gaps that are exposed should be accessible to at least a fingertip for wipe down, again depending on the environment where the product will be exposed.

Better still is to sidestep this issue in the initial design. Be wary of ribs, recesses, tight radiuses, pockets and other features that are hard to access. Sharp internal right angles should be eliminated or re-designed with larger and more gradual curvatures. Overall it’s best to favor unified designs that present a single unbroken flat or convex face that offers the minimum opportunity for dirt to collect.

Those surfaces should also have a smooth texture and be non-porous so they can be swabbed, sprayed or wiped with cleaners. If there are internal mechanisms these must be carefully sealed against contamination as well.

2. Make it Easy To Hold

In a hospital or clinical environment you will rarely find any rough or abrasive textures. Instead, if a product is meant to be held in the hand, it should neither be too smooth nor too sticky. Holdable shapes are meant to fit the contours of the human hand while providing good tactile feedback without needing a tight grip. Matte or softly sanded textures serve this function well but they also have a visual appeal.

3. Make it Easy To See

Softer textures and colors tend to diffuse and absorb incidental light. Think about most doctor’s offices or hospital rooms. They usually have ambient blue/white fluorescent lighting that provides a uniform illumination. Metals used in this kind of space therefore tend to be sandblasted or etched and other surfaces – including wood or plastic – are rarely polished or glossy.

All of these design choices help to support a visual environment without sharp highlights, strong contrasts, reflections or glare that can be both physically and emotionally taxing in potentially stressful situations.

4. Keep it Simple

More medical products are being used in the home for diagnostics and convalescent care. To aid in their use by non-professionals, and to prevent possible mistakes, these should be as user-friendly and foolproof as possible. A good way to do this is to simplify the design so that its proper function is implied by its shape. And this shape should also be useable only in one correct way, while being impossible to apply in some other fashion. So simple, in fact, that even someone who has had no instruction would be able to pick it up and immediately know how to hold it and what it’s for.

Another good idea is to make buttons large and single-function. If there are critical features, these must be easy to spot quickly so that they can be accessed in emergency situations without thinking. In this regard, the smart use of color can also be a big help.

5. Use Color Intelligently

Color can be used to communicate information, to classify that information and to guide the user in the correct use of a product.

For example, strong colors can immediately differentiate important or even dangerous functions (red/yellow) from safe ones (green or blue). Gradations of hue, descending from darker to lighter, also help to denote hierarchies of priority. Colors can define sections or zones on a product which are useful guides or reminders about proper usage.

And of course color has a strong emotional connection. Vibrant colors add energy and stimulation, and this might be employed in healthcare products related to fitness or activity. In other situations, bright primary colors are fun and attractive to children, while warm colors like golds and yellows impart a feeling of calm in prenatal settings meant to inspire nurturing.

Light greens and blues are associated with growth and the natural world, and these are more common in surgical and clinical settings along with soft pastels and off-whites. Conversely, bright reds and oranges in the wrong setting would be too strong and unsettling.

Want to learn more?

Star Rapid has years of experience helping customers bring medical innovations to market. We will bring this same experience to your next medical project when you contact us today for a free quotation and design review.

Star gratefully acknowledges the work of Forma Medical Device Design in providing invaluable information for this article: https://www.formamedicaldevicedesign.com/

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Although there are many new and emerging manufacturing technologies, there is still no substitute for the reliability and efficiency of CNC machining. Every day, millions of precision parts in a variety of substrates are made using one or more of these CNC machining techniques. Let’s take a closer look at the seven most common ones that we use every day to make high-quality rapid prototypes and production parts.

Turning

Probably the very first machine operation in history, turning simply involves clamping a workpiece firmly onto a rotating plate or mandrel. As the workpiece spins, the cutting tool is held against it in a fixture mounted on a moving slide. The slide can be moved up and down the length of the workpiece, as well as closer to or away from the center line. These simple machining techniques are ideal for removing large amounts of material quickly. In addition, a drill bit mounted on the tailstock can bore precise holes down the centerline of the workpiece.

Lathes are used to make concentric shapes on the outer circumference of a round part. Slots, ring grooves, stepped shoulders, internal and external threads, cylinders and shafts – many round or circular features are made on a lathe. They are also able to produce characteristically smooth and uniform surface finishes.

Milling

Milling differs fundamentally from turning in that the workpiece is held stationary and the cutting tool rotates on a spindle. The workpiece is usually held horizontally in a machine vise, mounted on a table that moves in the X and Y directions. The spindle holds a variety of cutting tools and moves in the X, Y and Z axes.

Although a mill can also drill holes and bores, it excels at removing stock from more complex and asymmetrical parts. Mills are used to make square/flat faces, notches, chamfers, channels, profiles, keyways and other features that depend on precisely cut angles. Together, milling and turning are responsible for the majority of CNC machine tool operations.

As with all metal machining operations, cutting fluid is used to cool the workpiece and cutting tool, for lubrication and to flush away metal particles.

Surface Grinding

Making a very flat surface on metal parts is important for many applications and the best way to make such a precise surface is with a grinder. The grinder is a spinning disk covered with an abrasive grit of a specific coarseness. The workpiece is mounted on a table and is moved back and forth laterally beneath the abrasive wheel or is sometimes held firm while the wheel moves. Notice of course that this process can only be used on faces that are not interfered with by any protrusions sticking up from the surface.

Different types of abrasives are used depending upon the material being ground. The heat and mechanical stress of the grinding process can adversely effect the work piece so care must be taken to control tool speed and temperature.

Solid Sink EDM

  A conductive electrode is placed close to the work piece while bathed in a dielectric fluid. The electrode is precisely shaped for the feature that it’s cutting. As the electrode discharges, metal particles are forced off the surface of the workpiece. The electrode itself does not touch the workpiece but is sacrificial and may need to be replaced frequently.

EDM is used to make pockets, holes and square features inside of hardened tool steels that would be difficult, if not impossible, to make any other way. It’s typically used on molds for plastic injection and pressure die casting, rarely on the finished piece itself. EDM is also used for making textured surfaces or debossed (recessed) lettering and logos on mold tools.

Wire EDM

Wire EDM uses copper wire as a conductor for a high-voltage electric charge. Fresh wire is fed from a spool as the conductor is steadily eroded during the cutting process. This technique requires a pass through and can’t be used in a blind hole.

Wire EDM is used on thick, hardened tool steel to make circular or semi-circular features that would be very difficult to make with conventional cutting tools.

Cylindrical Grinding

This is a combination of surface grinding and lathe turning. The workpiece is usually held stationary while a circular or cylindrical grinding wheel is rotated against its surface. Cylindrical grinders can be used on both inside and outside diameters, either all the way through the length of the part or at partial depths.

The great advantage of this process is that it makes very precise and accurate tolerances with extremely smooth surface texture.

Optical Grinding

So far we’ve been only talking about machining metals, but CNC machining is also used for making specialty optics in glass or plastic. Optics require very fine surfaces with extremely close tolerances, so specialized grinding equipment is used that spins a grinding wheel against a surface while rotating on multiple axes.

This has the effect of averaging out any deviations from the nominal. Grinding paste is also used as a lubricant and to create a polished finished surface.

Conclusion

We like working with informed customers. We think it’s better for you if you know how parts are made and why some techniques are chosen over others. We encourage you to contact us for a free quotation and we can recommend the best service for your next project.

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Robotics Team World Champions

After falling to 64th place out of 67 teams in their division, The Iron Panthers (The Burlingame Robotics Team) was slightly discouraged, but they were able to make a glorious comeback, ending in 21st place in the Newton Division competition.

Hard-Fought Battle of Robotics Competition World Champions

DATRON Lends a Hand to Robotics Team

DATRON’s California office was involved with the team, offering their high-speed machining equipment to help them make parts for their robot. Director of Technology, Chris Hopkins reflects, “We were happy to provide the tools these future engineers needed to get the job done and turn their winning design into reality. We congratulate them on their victory and wish each of them great success in the future.”

Above: Short video clip of machining aluminum drive frame parts.

Robotics Champions Give DATRON the Thumbs Up!

The team coach and captains summed up their experience working with DATRON Dynamics in the following thank you note:

“We would like to thank DATRON so much for all the support we have received from you these past few years. Thank you for enabling us to have such a great robot by milling our drive base parts with your incredible machinery. We couldn’t have done this without you. Our team has worked extremely hard to win the final round in the Houston Championships, and we believe that our success is the embodiment of our hard work from your support. The road to winning the FIRST Robotics Competition was not easy, but you have helped our team greatly. Not only does your support allow our team to grow, but also flourish and achieve great things. Without your sponsorship, our team would have never been able to become this successful, and it was your team that enabled our accomplishments to happen.”

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Les masques capillaires sont des traitements essentiels pour quiconque souhaite maintenir des cheveux sains et éclatants. Que vos cheveux soient secs, abîmés, fins ou colorés, il existe un masque capillaire qui peut répondre à vos besoins spécifiques. Dans cet article approfondi, nous allons explorer les différents types de masques capillaires, comment choisir le meilleur pour vous, ainsi que des conseils pratiques pour maximiser l’efficacité de ces produits.

Pourquoi Utiliser un Masque Capillaire ?

Les masques capillaires offrent de nombreux avantages qui vont bien au-delà d’un simple soin hydratant. Voici quelques raisons convaincantes d’intégrer un masque capillaire dans votre routine de soins :

• Hydratation : Les masques capillaires apportent une hydratation intense, ce qui est essentiel pour restaurer l’élasticité et la douceur des cheveux.
• Réparation : Ils aident à réparer les cheveux abîmés, à réduire les fourches et à prévenir les dommages futurs.
• Nutrition : Les ingrédients riches en nutriments renforcent la fibre capillaire et améliorent la texture globale des cheveux.
• Protection : Un bon masque capillaire peut offrir une barrière contre les agressions extérieures comme la pollution, le soleil et la chaleur des outils de coiffage.
• Amélioration de l’apparence : Un masque régulier peut rendre vos cheveux plus brillants, plus souples et plus faciles à coiffer.

Comment Choisir le Meilleur Masque Capillaire ?

Le choix d’un masque capillaire ne doit pas être pris à la légère. Voici quelques étapes clés pour vous aider à sélectionner le produit idéal :

1. Connaître Votre Type de Cheveux

Comprendre votre type de cheveux est la première étape pour choisir le bon masque. Voici des recommandations selon les différents types de cheveux :

• Cheveux Secs : Optez pour des masques riches en huiles naturelles comme l’huile de coco, l’huile d’argan ou le beurre de karité. Ces ingrédients aident à réhydrater et à nourrir en profondeur.
• Cheveux Grasses : Choisissez des masques légers, avec des ingrédients purifiants comme l’argile ou des extraits de plantes qui absorbent l’excès de sébum sans assécher les longueurs.
• Cheveux Fins : Recherchez des masques volumisants qui ne pèsent pas sur les cheveux. Les formules légères contenant des protéines peuvent aider à renforcer sans alourdir.
• Cheveux Bouclés : Les masques crémeux riches en humectants comme la glycérine ou le miel aident à définir les boucles tout en réduisant les frisottis.

2. Identifier Vos Besoins Spécifiques

Chaque personne a des besoins uniques en matière de soins capillaires. Voici quelques préoccupations courantes et les masques qui peuvent y répondre :

• Cheveux Abîmés : Privilégiez les masques réparateurs qui contiennent des protéines et des acides aminés pour renforcer la structure des cheveux.
• Cheveux Colorés : Optez pour des formules protectrices qui préservent la couleur, souvent enrichies en filtres UV et en antioxydants.
• Cheveux Frisés : Recherchez des masques hydratants et définisseurs de boucles qui aident à contrôler les frisottis et à apporter de la brillance.
• Scalp Sensible : Choisissez des masques apaisants contenant des ingrédients comme l’aloès ou l’huile d’arbre à thé pour réduire l’inflammation et les irritations.

Ingrédients à Rechercher

Les ingrédients d’un masque capillaire jouent un rôle crucial dans son efficacité. Voici quelques ingrédients clés à rechercher :

• Huiles Naturelles : L’huile de coco, l’huile d’argan et l’huile d’avocat sont idéales pour nourrir et hydrater.
• Beurres : Le beurre de karité et le beurre de cacao offrent une hydratation intense et aident à sceller l’hydratation dans les cheveux.
• Protéines : La kératine et les protéines de soie renforcent les cheveux et aident à réparer les dommages.
• Vitamines : La vitamine E et la vitamine B5 sont excellentes pour la santé du cuir chevelu et des cheveux.
• Extraits de Plantes : Des ingrédients comme l’aloès vera et le thé vert peuvent offrir des propriétés apaisantes et antioxydantes.

Conseils d’Application

Pour maximiser l’efficacité de votre masque capillaire, voici quelques conseils d’application :

• Fréquence : Utilisez un masque capillaire une fois par semaine pour des résultats optimaux, mais ajustez selon les besoins de vos cheveux.
• Application : Appliquez le masque sur cheveux propres et humides, en insistant sur les longueurs et les pointes. Évitez d’en mettre sur le cuir chevelu si vous avez des cheveux gras.
• Temps de Pose : Respectez le temps de pose indiqué sur l’emballage pour maximiser l’efficacité. En général, un masque doit poser entre 10 à 30 minutes.
• Chaleur : Pour une pénétration plus profonde, couvrez vos cheveux avec un bonnet de douche ou utilisez une source de chaleur douce, comme un sèche-cheveux, pendant quelques minutes.

Les Erreurs Courantes à Éviter

Il est également important de connaître les erreurs courantes lors de l’utilisation de masques capillaires :

• Utilisation Excessive : Trop de masque peut alourdir les cheveux et les rendre gras. Respectez la fréquence recommandée.
• Ne Pas Rincer Correctement : Assurez-vous de bien rincer le masque pour éviter les résidus qui peuvent alourdir les cheveux.
• Ne Pas Tester les Produits : Avant d’appliquer un nouveau masque, effectuez un test sur une petite mèche pour éviter les réactions indésirables.

Conclusion

Choisir le bon masque capillaire peut transformer la santé et l’apparence de vos cheveux. En tenant compte de votre type de cheveux et de vos besoins spécifiques, vous pourrez révéler toute la beauté de votre chevelure. N’oubliez pas d’expérimenter avec différents masques pour trouver celui qui vous convient le mieux. Avec une utilisation régulière et des soins appropriés, vos cheveux seront non seulement beaux, mais également en pleine santé.

Questions Fréquemment Posées

Voici quelques questions courantes concernant les masques capillaires :

• Quand devrais-je appliquer un masque capillaire ?
  Il est préférable d’appliquer un masque capillaire après votre shampooing, sur des cheveux propres et humides.
• Combien de temps dois-je laisser le masque sur mes cheveux ?
  Le temps de pose varie selon le produit, mais en général, entre 10 et 30 minutes est recommandé.
• Puis-je utiliser un masque capillaire tous les jours ?
  Il n’est pas recommandé d’utiliser un masque capillaire tous les jours, car cela peut alourdir les cheveux. Une fois par semaine est généralement suffisant.

En suivant ces conseils et recommandations, vous serez en mesure de choisir le meilleur masque capillaire pour répondre à vos besoins et révéler la beauté de vos cheveux.