0 extremely small pieces of metal, stone, etc., produced when a material is shaped or cut on a machine: --
This may be a bit confusing, as swarf now commonly refers to the metal shavings and chips resulting from metalworking operations.
In cutting metals the waste is chips or swarf and excess metal.
Clean-up and disposal of this continuous-cutting swarf is made simpler by using a cutting tool with a chip-breaker.
The rest of this article discusses metalworking swarf.
This forces the cutting edge against the workpiece, cutting off chips (swarf) from the hole as it is drilled.
This creates high friction and very hot swarf.
The coolant provides lubrication and cooling to the cutting edges and removes the swarf or chips from the hole.
The chips are disposed behind the cutter, leading to easier swarf removal.
