Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamHeard
I'll leave others to comment on tooling, but I will say we run a mister nonstop during cutting. It greatly increases cutting speed and reduces failures. This doesn't create a lot of liquid per hour, so we don't have any method of collecting or reuse for it.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by sanddrag
On our router at ~20,000 RPM, we've had a lot of trouble cutting aluminum with a standard 1/4" 3 flute carbide variable helix endmill we use with great results at 6,000 RPM with coolant on the mill. On the router, it just wants to load up and melt/weld chips. I'm thinking a 2-flute would give better chip evacuation.
Currently, our coolant system on the router is a student and a spray bottle of WD40.
|
David,
Like Adam we also use a mister non stop. Your issue is using the WD-40 squirt bottle. Its a waste of time, we did that for a few weeks until we got tired of endmills gumming up and wasting our money.
What we also do is a run 2 airlines + the mister. So two airlines are blowing away the chips so your not recutting chips. The mister keeps the endmill from gumming up.
http://littlemachineshop.com/product...y=212208195 9
This is the one we have, bought it off of ebay for ~$40 bucks.
-RC