Thanks. The last bit of LinuxCNC milling with a 6mm carbide plunging into HRS broke two of them. I'm really not doing this right yet. So any examples of feeds, speeds and coolant are really helpful.
John Dammeyer > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Sokolik [mailto:samco...@gmail.com] > Sent: April-14-20 10:38 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Non-circular boring. Linuxcnc style. > > sorry - forgot a few things.. The mill was a resharpened at about .47". > (why it took 2 tries to get the size where I wanted it) the timing gear > was aluminum. > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:26 PM Ed <ate...@mwt.net> wrote: > > > On 4/14/20 9:53 AM, Sam Sokolik wrote: > > > now to upgrade the spindle encoder... > > > > > > https://youtu.be/VmWeXS6y-lg > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:00 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 02:50, Ed <ate...@mwt.net> wrote: > > >> > > >>> I'm thinking gear hobs or single cutters. > > >> I have been thinking of making gear hobs this way for a while. What > > >> holds me back is that I am not sure that I know how to heat treat the > > >> hob to a state that will cut the materials that I want to make gears > > >> out of. > > >> > > >> -- > > > > Heat treating D2 is not a problem here and would work well if a little > > slower than M2 high speed. A higher temp furnace is in the plans. I keep > > some D2 on hand. > > > > I am being pushed by a couple customers to get my horizontal/hobbing > > machine finished and that will be able to do this kind of work. Soon I > > will be paging Andy to help with the setup. :-) > > > > Ed. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
