The Ease Of Using A Carbide Thread Mill NPT Cutter

[Geoffrey Less]

Threads are an essential part of many pieces of hardware, allowing them to be secure to surfaces or other components. When creating threads, accuracy is essential to ensure that they can find any other part with complimentary threads. There are several types of threads, and national pipe thread(NPT) has become a standard option for many applications involving pipe fittings. With a carbide thread mill NPT cutter, these specialized threads can be completed in seconds, helping to speed up the production process of machining NPT pipes and compatible components.

NPT threads were created in order for there to be a unified system for how threads were produced to ensure compatibility between pipe fittings. These threads use a tapered design that helps the pipe fittings to remain secure and water tight. There are also special NPTF threads used for fuel applications that are designed to provide a leak free seal without the need for teflon tape and other leak prevention applications.

The traditional techniques for producing these threaded surfaces were manual tap and die cutters. These tools were slow and, due to poor chip breaking, were susceptible to jamming and damaging the component being threaded. More advanced threading machines, like those commonly found near metal pipes in hardware stores, can complete the task of threading easily and with little risk of failure.

As automated milling machines have become a more prominent fixture in manufacturing, specialized end mills have been created to help cut threads with incredible precision and speed using a milling machine. Full form carbide thread mill NPT cutting tools are designed with a series of points along the cutting surface. By dropping the tool by the pitch of the threads, you can allow each point on the cutting to terminate the 360 degree cut where the point below it started cutting, producing a perfect helical thread. These amazing cutting tools can complete an entire threaded surface in one quick 360 degree pass, making them the fastest manner of thread cutting developed.

Each of these full form thread cutters are only designed to cut a single thread pitch, though they can cut a wide range of thread sizes as long as the cut is set up to steadily move the cutter by the length of a thread pitch during the pass. If you need to add threads to a workpiece that is particularly thin walled or less stable, single pitch thread mills can cut a wider range of threads, though they have to trace along the entire length of the thread.

If you are looking for carbide thread mill NPT cutters to help your shop speedup production, you can find them at www.onlinecarbide.com. Online Carbide is an American manufacturer of high quality end mills and drill bits. Their solid carbide thread mills are designed to produce accurate threads quickly so you can cut down on production time without sacrificing quality. If you have any questions about their tools, feel free to reach out to a member of the Online Carbide team by sending an email to [e-mail].