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Cutting grooves (grooving) Cutting grooves (grooving services) at Midwest Metal Fabrication. Grooving is a machining operation that uses a single-point cutoff tool to sever a complete section of a workpiece from the raw stock cutting grooves to a specified depth in one pass by a form tool. Grooving does not sever a complete section from the workpiece. In both parting and grooving, a tool moves radially with respect to a rotating workpiece. To view details about Midwest Metal Fabrication’s grooving services, select one of the links below: Grooving overview Grooving process characteristics Materials Workpiece geometry/shapes Tool materials Part size Tolerances Complementary services Grooving overview Midwest Metal Fabrication machinists use engine lathes and turret lathes to perform our grooving operations. Grooving process characteristics The standard grooving process has a number of inherent characteristics. These include: Advancing a single-point cutting tool radially into a rotating workpiece, Severing the workpiece from the stock, Using tools that are the same shape as the desired groove form, and Removing fabricated material in the form of chips. Materials We commonly groove both steel and aluminum for our customers requiring fabricated parts and components. We can also groove various aluminum alloys, T1 and T2 aluminum, brass, copper, galvanized steel, stainless steel, and pre-painted metals. Workpiece geometry/shapes Midwest Metal Fabrication’s machinists are capable of producing a number of common shapes during grooving. See the schematic to the right. Tool materials We only utilize steel tools during our grooving operations. Part size Midwest Metal Fabrication machinists are capable of grooving parts from 10” W x 2” H x 10” L to 10’ W x 2’ H x 10’ L. Tolerances We are capable of holding a tolerance of +/- 0.005” during our grooving operations. Complementary services Midwest Metal Fabrication offers drilling, tapping, turning, and milling among other complementary machining services for our custom fabricated metal parts or components to complement our groove cutting and other machining processes. Call us today at 1-219-931-3131, email us at sales@midwestmetalfabrication.com, or send a fax using 1-219-844-8512 to get a quick quote to help solve your heavy gauge steel fabricating problems. Previous: << Surface grinding Next: Milling >>

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Custom Heavy Gauge Metal Fabricating Services
1225 Martin Luther King Drive • Gary, Indiana 46402-3013
Phone: 1-219-931-3131 • Fax: 1-219-844-8512
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