Captdave
Titanium
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2006
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
This afternoon I setup a small turning job that gets a milled 9/16" wrench hex cut with a 1/2" .060" bull EM to blend it into the 5/8" stock behind 1" of M12 threads. Ran a few parts before I left the shop but after diner got to thinking of a quick way to break the sharp edge.
So here is my thought and tell me where I'm going wrong. I should be able to copy the same milling cycle process used to cut the hex and change the EM size to .440" and go .030" or .040" deeper in Z to get the EM to just kiss the part to break the sharp edge. Of course I haven't check any of my numbers yet but off the top of my head I think it's doable.
I could use a chamfer tool in a radial live tool but have a couple of hundred to make and trying to avoid another tool change if I can get away without it, besides I have another similar job coming up soon in the same family that's 1-1/2" bar and 3,000+ of them to make so anything I can do to keep the cycle time down will help tremendously.
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So here is my thought and tell me where I'm going wrong. I should be able to copy the same milling cycle process used to cut the hex and change the EM size to .440" and go .030" or .040" deeper in Z to get the EM to just kiss the part to break the sharp edge. Of course I haven't check any of my numbers yet but off the top of my head I think it's doable.
I could use a chamfer tool in a radial live tool but have a couple of hundred to make and trying to avoid another tool change if I can get away without it, besides I have another similar job coming up soon in the same family that's 1-1/2" bar and 3,000+ of them to make so anything I can do to keep the cycle time down will help tremendously.
SQT15M T+