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Anothe option when drilling deep holes and having issues with chip clearance is to try parabolic flute(?) drill bits, these have a more agressive spiral for removng chips a lot easier and tend to have a more accurate hole drilled. They have worked well for us in our dealings with 316 and 316L SS

We use Solidworks for the 3-D aspect of design and utilize Gibbs software for the tool paths. Pretty happy with both...the exception being that Mastercam is the program to use with solidworks from what Ive seen. I like the power of Gibbs and am very satisifed. They even wrote a special post...

I have a Citizen B12 and have been using it for 5 years now. I havent run into many issues with holding tolerances over long runs and we machine 0.064" 316L SS Ground stock on a daily basis. I will say that the Citizen is kinda finiky and needs attention when working with stuff that...

depends on if your using a single point tool or a multi point tool. Since the cut depth is pretty small (thread height) and (if single point threading) you can go pretty fast since your not removing that much material. Think of milling with a small end mill, taking a shallow cut. If your...