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Offline John Rudd

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cutter re-grinding
« on: December 18, 2011, 08:40:53 AM »
Does anyone know of a mail order company that does cutter regrinding?
You know you send them your endmills and they regrind them and send them back for a small charge....

I have several milling cutters that I've damaged  :doh: and one of them is a Ti coated 20mm end mill.....
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Offline BillTodd

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Re: cutter re-grinding
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2011, 09:01:36 AM »
There's chap that regularly advertises on Homeworkshop that does it for a charity donation:

http://www.homeworkshop.org.uk/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&view=show_ad&adid=9563&catid=2
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Offline Fergus OMore

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Re: cutter re-grinding
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2011, 09:09:10 AM »
In addition to the offer  through John Stevenson's excellent site, it is quite possible to do the ends of mills with fairly basic homemade tooling.
I can pass some information if you will e-mail me giving you proper E-mail add.

However, if you have things like collets and dividing heads or whatever, you should be able to do mills and tools and so forth without undue  bother.

All that you are doing is to create a cutting edge and secondary relief angle on perhaps two lips in much the same way as Pete has demonstrated in another post -on which I praised.