Hi!
Im running 2007 VF2-SS, 2005 VF8 and soon new VF3-YT. (all 40 taper without gearbox) I do mostly aluminum and plastics but now old customer of mine asked if we could do some steel parts involving large work pieces and lots of roughing. Usually i rough my steel parts with BIG Kaiser FCR 32mm 3-flute face mill @ 1800rpm and feeding 1000mm min while taking 80% wide and 1.5mm deep cuts. That is about best these machines can do with cutters i have available.
But getting work this big it feels dumb to waste inserts that are designed for good surface finish and light finishing/semi finishing cuts. I have been looking for Mitsubishi AJX series high feed cutters for steel roughing but only problem is i have no idea if my machines are rigid enough or have enough power to run them properly.
Any ideas?
Im running 2007 VF2-SS, 2005 VF8 and soon new VF3-YT. (all 40 taper without gearbox) I do mostly aluminum and plastics but now old customer of mine asked if we could do some steel parts involving large work pieces and lots of roughing. Usually i rough my steel parts with BIG Kaiser FCR 32mm 3-flute face mill @ 1800rpm and feeding 1000mm min while taking 80% wide and 1.5mm deep cuts. That is about best these machines can do with cutters i have available.
But getting work this big it feels dumb to waste inserts that are designed for good surface finish and light finishing/semi finishing cuts. I have been looking for Mitsubishi AJX series high feed cutters for steel roughing but only problem is i have no idea if my machines are rigid enough or have enough power to run them properly.
Any ideas?