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| ieezitin:
I have made my own tap now i want to cut flutes in it for chip relief, whats better a ball end mill or regular end mill. it is .636 dia 26TPI i was thinking three flutes, All advice is welcome. Thank you. Anthony. |
| jcs0001:
Anthony: This page might help. Dean deals with cutting flutes in a counterbore and gives a formula to use as to how deep from the top of the counterbore to lower the end mill (if using a vertical mill on a counterbore held horizontally): http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/projects/mill/cbore/cbore.html I've used a regular end mill to do the same for cutters but can't say that I have a lot of knowledge in this regard. John. |
| NeoTech:
Take not that Dean is also a wizard. |
| DMIOM:
--- Quote from: NeoTech on September 13, 2015, 02:42:33 AM ---Take not that Dean is also a wizard. --- End quote --- +1 :bow: :bow: :bow: |
| Will_D:
Thats a great article on making your own cutters. There really should be a knowledge base for definitives like this ( or is there one already ? ) |
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