peter.blais
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2006
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT
Hi guys,
I'm just tooling up a new Bridgeport / hardinge 40 taper machine... Looking for a good face mill, and was curious what you guys are running. We mill mostly aluminum, and do a fair bit of carrier work where we need to delete a slab off the back side of it on the second op... I don't need ultra low Ra finishes but I do need it to look spectacular- wiper inserts don't usually work because they leave it too "smeary" looking.
Anyways, what are you guys running? I'm thinking about buying two, one for steel and one for aluminum, so the inserts don't all have to come out of them. I'm currently running a mitsubishi one on our haas and we like it, but we don't like the local mitsubishi distributor, and they rape us on the inserts... I've been running a lot of iscar stuff on the lathe and loving it so I was looking a bit at some of theirs... Their tool adviser points me to this "heli2000" guy- ISCAR Cutting Tools - Metal Working Tools - Iscar Catalog : HM90 F90A-15 ...
Another option is to go with maritool / ultradex- they don't have carbide seats but are so cheap you could just throw em out if they get beat up...
Also, it's a big plus spindle- would it be worth buying a one piece body / holder that is big plus / dual contact? Pretty sure I have seen Kaiser etc advertising those.
Cheers,
Pete
I'm just tooling up a new Bridgeport / hardinge 40 taper machine... Looking for a good face mill, and was curious what you guys are running. We mill mostly aluminum, and do a fair bit of carrier work where we need to delete a slab off the back side of it on the second op... I don't need ultra low Ra finishes but I do need it to look spectacular- wiper inserts don't usually work because they leave it too "smeary" looking.
Anyways, what are you guys running? I'm thinking about buying two, one for steel and one for aluminum, so the inserts don't all have to come out of them. I'm currently running a mitsubishi one on our haas and we like it, but we don't like the local mitsubishi distributor, and they rape us on the inserts... I've been running a lot of iscar stuff on the lathe and loving it so I was looking a bit at some of theirs... Their tool adviser points me to this "heli2000" guy- ISCAR Cutting Tools - Metal Working Tools - Iscar Catalog : HM90 F90A-15 ...
Another option is to go with maritool / ultradex- they don't have carbide seats but are so cheap you could just throw em out if they get beat up...
Also, it's a big plus spindle- would it be worth buying a one piece body / holder that is big plus / dual contact? Pretty sure I have seen Kaiser etc advertising those.
Cheers,
Pete