> Thank you Dave, for bringing this tough steel to our notice. > > In the fact sheet on the steel, the thing I checked first was the End Milling > section. > > Cutting Parameters High Speed Steel Carbide: Insert > Carbide: Solid > > metres/minute 8 to 12 110 to 160 > 60 to 80 > Feet/minute 26 to 40 360 to 525 > 200 to 260 > > Very different from the 100 fpm in school, and 250 fpm in a machine shop, > for free cutting steel wen using High Speed Steel. > > > The choice of steel depends on what you can buy, what you are making, and > what you are doing.
Have some inch thick or similar steel plates at my work place used as dead weight. No idea about the quality but it look more expensive than needed. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
