FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers and other aspects worth knowing
We are happy to receive your order by mail or via our contact form.
Via our contact form or by mail, we will gladly take care of your request or receive your specific inquiry. You will find our contact details in category Contact.
Goods in stock usually leave our warehouse on the same day they are ordered. For new or custom-made products the delivery time is about 6-8 weeks.
Payments are to be made by bank transfer. Depending on the agreement, delivery is made against prepayment or on account. The invoice will be sent by mail.
The shipping costs depend on the weight, dimensions and destination of the shipment and are calculated individually per delivery.
The minimum order value per order is 30,00 EUR net value of goods. For smaller orders, a variable minimum quantity surcharge will be levied, whereby the net order value will be filled up to 30,00 EUR in each case.
They can be found in category GTC.
Our tools are suitable for machining wood, plastic and aluminium and are also used in window and door production for profiles with steel insert.
TS is used for machining dry and wet softwood.
HS is suitable for dry and wet soft- and hardwood, for plastic and aluminium.
TC and STC is used for dry soft- and hardwood, for laminated wood, wood composites and coated materials as well as for plastic and aluminium.
For working wood, we recommend using a tool with a center point.
For machining plastic, aluminium and conditionally wood, a tool with V-point tip is best suited.
Any drill can be used for plunging. In addition, milling cutters with a plunge tip are suitable for plunging into the material.
We will be happy to take care of your individual needs. We gladly receive your specific inquiry via our contact form or by mail and will check the feasibility of your requirements.
In parallel, you will also find further products in our Catalogue Assortment L.
The recommended speed RPM is calculated from:
suitable cutting speed for the material to be machined in mm/min
drill circumference (= D x π) in mm
The resulting value is to be understood as a guideline only, individual deviations depending on found material, machine and tool are possible. Therefore, no liability is assumed for this information.
A multitude of influencing factors determine the correct feed rate, such as the tool used and its diameter, the material to be machined and the machine used. For this reason, no generally valid recommendation can be made here.
Our tools are manufactured exclusively at our site in Aalen-Niesitz in Germany and all comply with the applicable standard of the trade association.
Our tools are made of high alloy tool steel (TS), high alloy high speed steel (HS) and tungsten carbide (TC / STC).
We obtain these raw materials exclusively from domestic or intra-European manufacturers / suppliers.
Our tools can be supplied with TiN or TiAlN coating on request at an extra charge. We would also be happy to check your very individual request for coating.
Drilling is a machining process in which a circular hole is created by plunging the rotating tool into the material to be processed.
Milling is a machining process for producing planes, curved surfaces, edges or grooves in a wide variety of materials by moving the rotating tool on or in the material to be machined.
Material quality refers to the material which our tools are made of.
Firstly, this is the direction of the spiral or cutting edge of the tool, and furthermore means the direction of rotation in which the tool must run when machining the material (clockwise or counterclockwise).
This is the direction of the spiral of the tool.
This is the direction of rotation in which the tool must run when machining the material (clockwise or counterclockwise).
Working length is the length of the cutting edge of the tool measured in mm. The possible working depth in the material depends on it.
The spiral length designates the length of the spiral of a tool measured in mm.
Adjusting length is the length that the tool with external thread protrudes from the machine after complete clamping. This is specified in mm.
The center point is intended to facilitate to center the tool when plunging into the material, to provide stability during drilling and to prevent it from slipping. It is mainly found on drills.
The lateral cutting edges protruding next to the center point are called spurs.
These are in contact with the material before the cutting edge, score it before plunging and therefore provide guidance. This results in a particularly precise drilling hole.
The tip of a tool with V-point resembles the shape of a gable roof.
The purpose of the pilot drill is to facilitate centering of the tool when plunging into the material and to prevent it from slipping. It has a smaller diameter than the main drill or ream.
The drillbit is intended to facilitate centering when the tool is plunged into the material. Mainly milling cutters are equiped with it.
This refers to the design and course of the cutting edge and flute of the tool.
This refers to the design and course of the cutting edge and flute of the tool. Tools with helical cutting edge are spiral.
This indicates the number of cutting edges on the tool (number of teeth).
A plunge tip enables the milling tool not only to make an elongated milling cut in the material, but also to plunge into the material itself.
Here, not the entire tool is made of TC, but only the cutting edges are equipped with tungsten carbide inserts.
A landed flute is an additional guiding chamfer on the drill spiral that enables particularly precise work and thus provides an excellent drilling result.
The shank is the part of the tool with which it is clamped into the machine. There are various types, e. g. cylindrical, with external or internal thread, etc.
Here the tool is not made of the same material throughout, but the shank, in contrast to the cutting edge, is made of tool steel.
The thickness of the chips formed is limited by special ground cutting edges.
This refers to the faceted ground backoff.
The neck is the transition piece from the cutting edge to the shank that has been ground free and reduced in diameter. This allows the working depth in the material to be increased.
The spanner flat attached to the tool enables its tightening in the machine with an open-ended or ring spanner.
The width across flats refers to the size of the open-end or ring spanner required to tighten the tool installed in the machine.
The steel insert in profiles for windows and doors is intended to strengthen it and give it more stability.
Water slots are installed in the profile in window construction to ensure drainage and removal of rain and condensation water on windows or doors to the outside.
The vertical rods of a stair railing, which are anchored in the stair stringer, are called stockades.
Manual feed (MAN) means holding and operating of workpieces or tools by hand, as well as using a manual feeding device or a manually operated sliding carriage.
Mechanical feed (MEC) refers to a feed mechanism for the workpiece or tool that is integrated into the machine, and the workpiece or machine element with tool is thus mechanically held and guided during processing.
Hardwood is defined as wood with an oven-dry density > 0.55 g/cm³.
This includes most deciduous woods such as oak, beech, ash, maple, pear, cherry, elm, teak, cedar, chestnut, etc.
However, there are also exceptions, so that the equation deciduous wood = hardwood is true in most cases, but not always.
Softwood is defined as wood with an oven-dry density < 0.55 g/cm³.
The group of softwoods consists mainly of coniferous woods, such as spruce, fir, larch, pine, Douglas fir, etc.
However, there are some exceptions, such as poplar, lime or willow, which as deciduous woods belong to the softwoods. Coniferous wood = softwood is therefore true in most cases, but not always.
