Machining

• Free Machining Brass

  • Fine chips of swarf
  • No lubricant
  • Minimal wear on cutting and Machine tool

• Non-Free Machining Metal

  • Spirals of swarf slow to clear
  • Excessive Lubricants

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Free-machining brass produces fine chips of swarf.

Brass swarf is valuable (worth 40% of virgin material), is easily to handle and compact.

The swarf from non-free machining metals is slow to clear from the tool. Giving higher tool wear, long tangles of swarf and the need for expensive cutting lubricants.

Ferrous swarf has little valuable