FETTE TOOLS

This has been an objective of mankind since the invention of the ship.  The statement has grown to reflect shelter conditions in virtually any objective. With the advent of Covid-19 the importance of a “Safe Port” has become a global…

Fette thread rolling tools have versatility and can be applied to rolling other forms besides external threads. Knurling and swaging applications are easily done on axial, tangential and radial tools with great success. Axial heads are especially successful at rolling…

All cut taps are not manufactured on equal footing. Most European and Japanese taps are produced from powdered metal blanks. This allows for improved performance of the cutting edge due to the irregular grain structure of the tool. Coatings are…

Roll threading a journal requires turning the diameter before rolling. Roll threading implies that part volume is a key. In any high-volume production application, the parts require turning to prep for threading. The blazing speed of roll threading can be…

Through the publication of previous blogs, we have discussed in some depth the critical advantages offered by rolling as opposed to cutting threads in most metals. The tooling design has changed little over several decades. Using the tools successfully required…

Global tooling sources are a common resource for virtually every country within our planet. North America, Europe, Asia, Scandinavia and Japan presently supply the bulk of the world’s requirements for metal working tools. The speed and efficiency of world travel…

Rolling screw threads in metal is the most cost and quality effective method of producing threaded parts. Three basic thread production technologies exist throughout the metal working world. Axial tools produce one thread with each revolution and have no length…

The creation of screw threads began several centuries ago, as a cutting technology. It was first used in wood applications and as cutting materials improved, metal applications. With the advent of more powerful machinery, rolling threads on various metals became…

Our shared victories with our allies in two world wars made us recipients of several technological discoveries. Following the end of WW2, jet propulsion and rocketry were only two of many technologies to migrate to America along with many of…

There used to be an old saying “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” For too many years this saying could easily apply to thread rolling technology. For too many potential users it seemed…