
The WIDIA™ complete portfolio of Tunable Boring Bars helps prevent chatter and other problems associated with an internal dampening package designed for deep-hole boring applications.
| Optimal Rigidity | Machining without Chatter or Vibration |
| Eliminates vibration to improve surface | Less noise exposure and improved results. |
| quality and tolerance. | |
| Tunable Damping Mechanism | |
| Increased Productivity | |
| To account for different vibration behavior, | |
| Larger depth of cut and better chip removal | bars can be tuned on the machine, and |
| by up to 10:1 (steel) and 15:1 (carbide) | tools can be adjusted. |
length-to-diameter ratio.
TTS Tool — area of optimum application
4 Standard Tool — area of optimum application
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
TTS Tool: Standard Tool: Standard Tool L/D=4 TTS Tool L/D=7
| max DOC with a benefit | max DOC on | Increased stability allows for | |
| of more than 500% | stable conditions | greater depth of cut |
NOTE: This chart illustrates how KM ™ Tunable Boring Bars proivde greater stability than standard toolholders, even in larger tool length-to-diameter ratios. Increased stablilty enables greater depth of cut.