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Originally Posted by MWB
Hey Travis, Did you do these with soft jaws on the mill? Or just a 4th Axis? I was hexing a few shafts at work the other day and we used a lathe with live tooling and a tailstock center. What in your opinion is better?
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These are made on a screw machine. Similar to a live tooled lathe, except there's a bushing in the headstock that allows the material to be fed out to the tool, so you're constantly cutting at the spindle nose with no overhang. I'm not aware of any machine that can make these more efficiently.