When it comes to hand-applied lubricants, the ROCOL RTD® family of cutting lubricants has, and will always be, ‘the original and still the best.’ For a product range to have been available for generations, and still be the industry leader is testament to the advanced technology in the ROCOL RTD® fluids, compounds and sprays.
Regardless of its industry leading position, a company like ROCOL doesn’t rest on its laurels. The development engineers and expert chemists at the Leeds based Company have taken the ‘best’ and now engineered it to create the new Tri-Logic® series. With the arrival of the new Tri-Logic series, ROCOL has now enhanced its industry leading RTD® (Reaming, Tapping & Drilling) range of cutting technologies. The evolution of the Tri-Logic® series demonstrates ROCOL’s commitment to its continuous improvement programme. Working in close cooperation with its customer base across all industry sectors, ROCOL has paid meticulous attention to detail regarding the evolution of machine tool and cutting tool advancements as well as the ongoing material technology advancements.
The hand applied metal cutting lubricant Tri-Logic® RTD® Liquid is a viscous fluid containing extreme pressure additives for use in reaming, tapping, drilling and other metal cutting operations. Tri-Logic® RTD® is suitable for all metals including hardened steels, titanium, nimonics and all grades of aluminium alloys, significantly reducing friction to give superb cutting performance. Despite the exponential uptake in CNC technology in the last 30 years, hand applied liquids are as pertinent now as they have ever been.
As ROCOL’s Marketing Communications Manager, Mr Shaun Heys says: “Whether manufacturers are adopting manual or CNC machining, RTD® Liquid is still playing a critical role for engineers that are conscious of the quality and consistency of their holemaking and threading operations and also the performance and longevity of their cutting tools. The RTD® family of products have been formulated specifically for the holemaking and threading process and standard cutting fluids cannot compare in terms of performance.”
“With the addition of the Tri-Logic technology to the RTD® family, Tri-Logic RTD® Liquid can also be added to ordinary mineral cutting oil for the most severe cutting operations, such as broaching and gear cutting on the toughest metals. The RTD® range contains technically advanced extreme pressure additives that significantly reduce friction at the cutting edge, giving superb performance. The incorporation of Tri-Logic® RTD® technology ensures the fluid will not contaminate existing cutting fluids in the machine sump and in fact enhances the cutting performance further.”
The Tri-Logic® RTD® fluid has been developed with anti-microbial properties, so commonly found coolant sump bacteria will not identify the RTD® Tri-Logic fluid as a food source. This quality in the Tri-Logic® RTD® fluid helps to significantly reduce coolant degradation often caused by excessive tramp oil. This prolongs coolant life, reduces fluid costs and minimises the potential for bacterial growth and the associated health and skin conditions suffered by users of water mix cutting fluids..
Furthermore, the medium viscosity Tri-Logic® RTD® fluid has been developed with several Extreme Pressure (EP) additives that generate an 800kg weld load resistance. For the end user, these technically advanced additives are the primary reason that ROCOL’s Tri-Logic® RTD® fluid can outperform regular cutting fluids.
As the market leader for over 60 years, the RTD® family of products and in particular the Tri-Logic series of RTD® liquid provides the ultimate cutting performance and excellent surface finishes whilst more than doubling tool life, reducing tool wear and tap breakages, minimising waste and scrap, reducing friction and increasing wear resistance whilst offering unparalleled extreme pressure performance.
‘The original and still the best’ ROCOL RTD® liquid is available in bottles and containers from 400ml, 5ltr and 20ltr up to 200ltr whilst the Tri-Logic® RTD® liquid is available in 350ml, 5ltr and 20ltr quantities. As the ‘must have’ product for all machine shops, tool-rooms and maintenance departments, ROCOL has also developed sulphur and chlorine free versions of the industry leading fluid.
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