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sp3 Diamond Technologies' DiaTips enable unparalleled performance thanks to the company's vast polishing and laser fabrication technology for free-standing diamond. DiaTip consists of a cutting edge of pure diamond with no binder, eliminating chemical interaction with coolant or workpiece material to prevent premature failure due to edge erosion. DiaTip's benefits include two to three times the wear of PCD, longer lasting edge sharpness offering a smoother and more consistent finish, higher thermal conductivity that enables lower cutting temperatures, and reduced cutting force to reduce spindle power.

DiaTip is ideal for the following applications:

• Silicon aluminum alloys
• Metal matrix composites (ceramic aluminum alloys)
• Carbon fiber reinforced plastic
• Tungsten carbide
• Platinum
• High temperature plastics
• Glass reinforced epoxy

sp3 Diamond Technologies' DiaTips are available as insert tips or as a custom tip applied to customer-supplied carbide inserts and cartridges (see DiaPak). DiaTips are fabricated from a stand-alone sheet of thick film diamond, which is grown in a DC torch CVD reactor. Typical films are 500 microns thick but can be up to 1 mm. The diamond sheets are then laser cut into DiaTips.

Click here for sp3's DiaTip - Freestanding thick-film CVD Diamond Tool Tips brochure.

For additional information, contact us.