The document discusses different types of cutting tools and their applications. It describes various tools including alligator shears for cutting metal stock, abrasive saws for cutting hard materials, bandsaws that use continuous metal blades for uniform cutting, diamond saws used to cut stone and other hard materials in construction, hacksaws for cutting metal and plastic, high speed steel used to make cutting tools, jigsaws for cutting custom shapes, milling cutters for removing material in machining, bimetal bandsaws for cutting various metals, and tungsten carbide tipped saw blades for industrial cutting of metals, wood and plastic. It concludes by providing contact information for Littlehampton Cutting Tools Ltd.

1. Different kinds of cutting tools and their applications
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2. Alligator Shear
 Also known as a crocodile or lever shear
with a hinged jaw and powered by a
flywheel or hydraulic cylinder.
 They are sued for cutting long metal
stock or scrap, generally where accuracy
is not so important.
 It is often used with large metal
shredders to clean or prepare the scrap
for shredding.
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3.  Also known as cut-off
saw or metal-chop saw.
 It is specifically used to
cut hard materials such as
metals.
 Portable abrasive saws
have made site jobs quite
easier.
Abrasive Saw
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4. Bandsaw
 It uses blades consisting of
continuous band of metal with
teeth along one edge to cut
various work-pieces.
Bandsaw helps in uniform
cutting as it has evenly
distributed teeth load.
They are used in cutting meat,
metals and even hard timbers.
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5. Diamond Saw
A variety of diamond saw blades like circular
diamond blades, drills and surface grinding
wheels are used in construction work.
They are used in cutting stone, cobalt, asphalt,
bricks, glass in the construction industry.
Diamond saw tools are sued in cutting
semiconductor materials in IT industry and
cutting gemstones like diamonds in the gem
industry.
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6. Hacksaw
 A fine-toothed saw for
cutting metal.
Also used in cutting plastic
and wood. For eg. Plumbers
and electricians often use
them to cut pipes and
plastics.
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7. High Speed Steel
It is a subset of tool steels, and is commonly
used in tool bits and cutting tools.
It is often used in power saw blades and drill
bits.
They allow cutting faster than high carbon
steel.
The main use of HSS continues to be in the
manufacture of various cutting tools: drills,
taps, milling cutters, tool bits, gear cutters,
saw blades, router bits etc.
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8. Jigsaw
A tool used for cutting
arbitrary curves such as
stenciled designs or other
custom shapes into a piece of
wood, metal or other
material.
Modern jigsaws are power
tools made up of electric
motor and a reciprocating
saw blade.
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9. Milling Cutters
They are cutting tools used in
milling machines or machining
centers to perform milling
operations.
They remove material by their
movement within the machine
or directly from the cutter’s
shape.
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10. Bimetal Bandsaw
They are metal cutting blades
used on the bandsaw to cut carbon
steels, tool steel, structural steel,
stainless steel, pipes and tubes.
They can even cut ferrous and
non-ferrous metals such as brass,
aluminium bronze or steel.
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11. Littlehampton Cutting Tools Ltd
Tungsten Carbide
Tipped (TCT)
TCT saw blades are used for
industrial use in cutting
metals, aluminium, wood or
plastic.
The cutting edge consist of a
separate piece of material
either brazed, welded or
clamped on to a separate
body.

12. Address:- Unit 12 Thorgate Road,
Lineside Industrial Estate, Littlehampton,
West Sussex, UK
Ph:- 0800 028 3915
Email:-
littlehampton.cuttingtools@yahoo.co.uk
Web:-
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