gregormarwick
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2007
- Location
- Aberdeen, UK
While we do machine a lot of aluminium it's not the majority of our work. The coolant we use currently (Hysol XF) performs very poorly on aluminium, in particular tapping with coolant just doesn't work - torn threads everywhere, forcing us to manually apply something else (usually WD40) when tapping, and also when using form tools.
Gearing up for a job that's going to be cutting 6082-T6 exclusively for about 6 months, and there will be lots of tapped holes and form tool cut fluid ports.
I want to change one VMC over for the duration of the job to something that works very well in aluminium, in particular so that I can tap (cut and form) and use form tools with coolant and not worry about tears or dull surface finishes.
Suggestions?
Gearing up for a job that's going to be cutting 6082-T6 exclusively for about 6 months, and there will be lots of tapped holes and form tool cut fluid ports.
I want to change one VMC over for the duration of the job to something that works very well in aluminium, in particular so that I can tap (cut and form) and use form tools with coolant and not worry about tears or dull surface finishes.
Suggestions?