and gene did state "0.03125" mill I was using on the brass, at 7.5ipm and actually throwing miniature chips"
miniature chips ;) i like it smells like progress jeremy youngs On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 07 July 2014 15:43:34 andy pugh did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On 7 July 2014 14:59, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And MSC I have dealt with before seems to have dropped off the google > > > list. > > > > http://www.mscdirect.com > > True, and I looked at it. Page is totally different & could not find the > mills I have & used before. The 2 fluters I have coming can do a full 1/8" > deep cut, this one can't, I'm starting to hit the taper to the shank at a > hair over .0625 deep. > > But, I started on the lexan version, got about halfway thru it & realized > that my opto's slot isn't wide enough to clear the disk reliably, so I > just stopped it, and will add another first thing loop to reduce its > thickness from 0.090" to around 0.055" which will clear the slots even if > it has a .005" wobble. > > I will also crank up the feedrate, its cutting, with the one corner broken > 0.03125" mill I was using on the brass, at 7.5ipm and actually throwing > miniature chips, @ 0.0041" depth increment per pass. The machine, with > the old screws, was only good for 9 or 10 ipm under load, 15 rapid. So I > believe I'll reset the feedrate to 10ipm, and start slow with the feed > override. > > But first I need to thin the outer edge from about 2.2" to about 20 thou > larger than the final cutout. That of course will trim off one coat of > the paint, so we might have to re-think that sequence for the final one. > > Thanks Andy. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
