Viestors, the endmill bit you showed is made of full carbide, a little oversized for aluminum. Alu tools generally have a steeper cutting angle and higher pitch than tools for iron, that's all. Moreover, much higher cutting speed is used in alu. Be sure to use plenty of water based fluid, I have been using pure tap water, too, in case there was no self mixing cutting oil available.
I take it that you are on my side of the pond, since your name seems to come from the Baltic, land of my ancestors. So here is an European distributor that I have made good experiences with: http://www.fwt-gmbh.de/ Good luck! Am 16.02.2013 16:03, schrieb Viesturs Lācis: > Hello! > > Since I have totally zero experience with milling and what tools > should be used, I would appreciate some hints. > How good are single-flute endmills? Do they induce more vibration than > 2-flute endmills? It seems to me that single flute endmills might be > easier to resharpen. Is that really so? > > I also would appreciate any tips for sellers in Europe with reasonable > pricing. > As I will purchase milling motor from these guys, I am currently > looking at 8 mm endmill here: > http://www.damencnc.com/en/tools/cutting-tools/milling-cutter/226 > > I tried googling, but all I can find, is located on the other side of the > pond. > Thanks in advance! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
