Damping Bars

Damping Bars are tool shanks with an integrated damping system for highly efficient deep hole finish boring. There are six different Smart Damper anti-vibration holders for machine tools with DIN 69871, BT, and HSK available. All executions feature center through coolant supply.

When it comes to vibration and tooling the buzzword you’ll often hear is “overhang,” or length-to-diameter ratio. That’s because as the overhang grows, it becomes the single most limiting factor for performance as vibration becomes more likely to occur. This is an especially common issue for die and mold, aerospace, automobile, and oil and gas manufacturers.

Knowing that it’s also critical to have the damping elements as close to the cut as possible, most Smart Damper offerings are modular in design, allowing for an array of standard shanks to be adapted to create “custom” tools to extend over 16 inches, maintaining damping nearer the tool and managing vibration in long-overhang setups.