Micro Endmills for Precision Machining

About NS TOOL

NS TOOL, from Japan, is the world leader in micro solid endmill cutting tools. They specialise in sub Ø6mm endmills and have a excellent range of high quality endmills from Ø 6mm down to 10 microns! They are designed for performance in a range of material but the performance in hard metal +60HRC is very impressive.


NS TOOL has developed their own range of original coatings that radically outperform competition brands. They deliver impressive improvements in tool life and consistency. See Coatings for more info.


A high speed machining centre is required to properly utilise the small diameter tools. At Livetools, we supply Air Turbine Tools, pneumatically actuated, high speed spindles that can deliver RPM 45,000 – 90,000, and allow a normal machine to be turned into a high speed machine centres.

Solutions by Industry

Die & Mould

Moulds for making fuel cell separators—the key component for higher performance at reduced size and weight.

Medical

NS TOOL enables micro machining of components and ultra precision surface finishes – 0.05μm.

Medical devices for MRI scanning, proton therapy or endoscopic procedures.

Aerospace

Satellite parts which need to endure harsh environment of outer space and still function with accuracy.

Automotive

Moulds for making mechanical parts for automotive vehicles or bicycles of the best quality.

Micro Lens

Micro-lens array that holds multiple lenses together in smartphones.

Watch Makers

Micro Machining for Mechanical watch parts.

Engraving

High speed engraving on CNC machines. In combination with the a high RPM spindle the cycle time of high precision engraving operation can be radically reduced.

Electronics

Creating Molds for electronic components and machining of micro precision parts.

NS TOOL Product Categories / Series

Micro End Mill・Micro Drill

Micro Drill: End mill, drill micro end mill, and drill series with a cutter diameter of 0.01 mm or larger. Range of micro cutting processing using a machining center will be expanded.

PCD・Diamond End Mill

Diamond End Mill: Cutting processing of highly fragile materials, such as a hard metal alloy…PCD end mill/diamond coating series that changed an impossibility to a possibility.

CBN End Mill

The most suitable end mills for long-hour finishing process of high hard materials. End mills made of CBN sintered compact with hardness one rank below of diamonds as a raw material for tools.

MUGEN COATING PREMIUM Plus

Upgraded MUGEN-COATING series with higher resistance to heat and oxidisation, which enable carving and cutting of high-hardness materials by TiAlN coating application.

MUGEN COATING PREMIUM Series

Upgraded MUGEN-COATING series with higher resistance to heat and oxidisation, which enable carving and cutting of high-hardness materials by TiAlN coating application.

MUGEN-COATING

Versatile TiAlN coating makes MUGEN-COATING series suitable for various work materials, from soft irons to high-hardness metals. It also works with any coolants such as water soluble or insoluble lubricating oils, air blow and oil mist.

End Mills for aluminum and Plastics

AL series specialized for machining Aluminum alloy and Resin. Shapes of tool designed for each work material differentiate machining quality and accuracy.

Long Neck End Mill for Copper Electrode

Long Neck End Mill Series enable highly accurate copper electrode machining with minimal burrs. Realized long life machining on tough material of Copper Tungsten.

MUGEN-COATING Flat Drill

Flat drill realized high efficient and stable drilling in various scenes such as inclined surface and curved surface.

NS TOOL Endmills & Example Work

CBN SHPR400

New tool design reduces the cutting resistance and deliver improved finishing accuracy

Realized 4-Flute type from Ø0.

Achieve higher efficiency machining and more stable tool life in micro machining

The shank diameter accuracy is 2μm

Diameter sizes from Ø0.1 – Ø3

Micro slotting DC53 Example

Slot shape details:

0.1mm W x 2.5mm L x 0.3mm D

Work size: 30×10mm (Depth:0.3mm)

VIDEO DATA

Material

DC53 60HRC

Cutting Tool Part No.

SHPR400

Diameter Ø

0.1

Spindle Speed / RPM

120,000

Feed

300mm/min

Depth Of Cut

0.02

Cycle Time

3 hours 53 min

PCDRB R1x5

Unique tool geometry makes stable surface.

Polish-less machining become reality by nano-level roughness on profiling finish.

Upgraded tool edge design makes stable high quality surface

Fog Lamp Milling to Mirror Finish Example

VIDEO DATA

Material

STAVAX 52HRC

Cutting Tool Part No.

PCDRB R1X5

Spindle Speed / RPM

120,000

Feed

1,200 mm/min

Cycle Time

94 hours 50 min

Finishing Only - PCDRB1x5

63 hours 45min

MRBSH230SF

Realize stable cutting performance even for 70 HRC hardened steels.

New MUGEN COATING PREMIUM Plus improves both oxidation resistance and abrasion resistance.

New optimized new tool material and tool design to reduce cutting load.

R accuracy is ±0.003mm (R accuracy is based on a half value of actual diameter).

Shank diameter tolerance, high accuracy type, is – 0.001mm / – 0.003mm.

Gear Cutting Example

VIDEO DATA IS PICTURED BELOW

MSUSZ440

Stainless High Efficiency

Unequal flute spacing, unequal helix angle and high rigid end profile design to minimize chatter realize high efficient machining.

New developed special edge profile realized multi-functional performance of side milling, slot milling and drilling approaches on stainless steel.

Optimized high heat-resistance MUGEN-COATING PREMIUM to realize stable long time machining.

Total 62 sizes, some sizes line up with L/D=2 or 3.

High efficiency milling Example

VIDEO DATA

Material

SUS305

Cutting Tool Part No.

MSUSZ440

Diameter Ø

Ø6x12 (2D)

Spindle Speed / RPM

4,200 - 5,000

Feed

300mm/min

Depth Of Cut

Roughing: 1.2

Finishing: 0.05

Cycle Time

12min 26sec

ALZ345

Aluminium High Efficiency

3-Flute Power “Z” End Mill for Aluminum

AL-series realized a stable and high efficient machining.

Improved drilling capacity!

High performance with better chip disposal.

Add new 5D effective length type and long shank type to become 124 sizes.

DATA

Material

Aluminium Alloy A7075

Cutting Tool Part No.

ALZ345

Diameter Ø

Ø3mm x 9

Spindle Speed / RPM

20,000

Feed

2,200mm/min

Depth Of Cut

ap: 3mm

ae: 0.9mm

Cycle Time

6min total time

NSME100

Micro End Mill “MICRO EDGE”

Ultra-high-precision accuracy is guaranteed with ±2μm tolerance of flute diameter and h3 tolerance of shank diameter (circularity 0.1μm).

One straight flute, 5 items from 0.01 to 0.05mm diameter.

DATA

Material

Hair

Cutting Tool Part No.

NSME100

Diameter Ø

0.01 - 0.05

NS TOOL Original Coatings

NS TOOL Coatings overview

NS TOOL Coatings Selection Chart

MUGEN COATING PREMIUM Plus

MUGEN COATING PREMIUM is specialized for hardened steels.Improved from MUGEN COATING and succeeded in keeping characteristics that enough to process high hard materials.

High oxidation temperature brings high heat resistance, MUGEN COATING PREMIUM known as also applicable for high heat-resistant steels recently.

Cutting Data:

n:20,000min-1 Vf:1,600mm/min ap:0.15mm×ae:0.3mm

Oil Mist Cutting time :70min

MRBSH230SF R1x6

Wear width 0.102mm

Other tool brand

Wear Width 0.190mm

MUGEN COATING PREMIUM Series

MUGEN COATING PREMIUM is specialized for hardened steels.Improved from MUGEN COATING and succeeded in keeping characteristics that enough to process high hard materials.

High oxidation temperature brings high heat resistance, MUGEN COATING PREMIUM is also applicable for high heat-resistant steels.

[Material] HAP40:60HRC(Powder HSS)

Cutting Data:

n:20,000min-1 Vf:1,600mm/min ap:0.15mm×ae:0.3mm

Oil mist, Cutting time: 18min, Cutting length: 25m

MRBH230 R1x6

Tool wear 0.029mm

Rival R1x6

Tool wear 0.1mm

[Material] PD613 60HRC(SKD11)

Cutting Data:

n:25,000min-1 Vf:2,000mm/min ap:0.2mm×ae:0.3mm

Oil mist, Cutting time: 62min, Cutting Length: 100m

MRBH230 R1x6

Tool Wear 0.046mm

Rivals R1x6

Tool Wear 0.163mm

MUGEN COATING Series

Even TiAlN based coating, MUGEN COATING has excellent characteristics to bring high rigidity and lubricity for machining hardened steels (60HRC), prehardened steels, soft irons and coppers as following cases. Also suits to any coolant such as water soluble, oil, air blow and oil mist, MUGEN COTING can be called mighty coating that applicable to any materials and coolants.

[Material] STAVAX 52HRC(SUS420J2)

Cutting Data:

n:10,000min-1 Vf:1,500mm/min ap:0.1mm×ae:0.2mm

Water soluble fluid Cutting time:132min Cutting length 150m

MRB230 R1x10

Tool Wear 0.087mm

Rival R1x10

Tool Wear 0.136mm

[Material] S50C

Cutting Data:

n:3,400min-1 Vf:600mm/min ap:9.0mm×ae:1.2mm

Water soluble fluid Cutting time: 33min Cutting length 20m

MSE230 Φ6

Tool Wear 0.022mm

Rival Φ6

Tool Wear 0.1mm

Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) Coating

DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) COATING is composed from film like characteristic of carbon and made up of amorphous structure of diamond and graphite. Hardness is Hv 4,000 and friction coefficient is 0.1 μm. Coated surface is very smooth which achieves Ra 0.02 μm and very low welding that realizes excellent surface in cutting of aluminium. DLC is suitable for cutting nonferrous metals, especially for aluminiums, but not for ferrous metals.

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