dstryr
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2010
- Location
- Nampa Idaho
Before someone starts off with "Just buy metric" . I have a shop with 22 machines and probably 2000 holders. 300 of them are custom made extended HSK63 for doing surfacing work. I don't want to buy Metric tools and mix them into the chaos .
It seems all companies stateside have a +.000 -.002 Tolerance on their ball endmill radii. We are doing a ton of very critical surfacing parts and its super annoying to have to check every ball endmill before you load it (we don't have a presetter). Impossible to hold +/-.001 or +/-.002 on 5 axis surfaces when your 3/8 ball that is supposed to have a .1875 radius is actually a .1865 and sometimes they aren't even perfectly tangent so when you are using different portions of the ball tilted over get different radii.
I want to place a big order and just stock 4 different diameters in 3 flute configurations for this type of work.
Can anyone make any suggestions of where to look?
Commonly cutting Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless
It seems all companies stateside have a +.000 -.002 Tolerance on their ball endmill radii. We are doing a ton of very critical surfacing parts and its super annoying to have to check every ball endmill before you load it (we don't have a presetter). Impossible to hold +/-.001 or +/-.002 on 5 axis surfaces when your 3/8 ball that is supposed to have a .1875 radius is actually a .1865 and sometimes they aren't even perfectly tangent so when you are using different portions of the ball tilted over get different radii.
I want to place a big order and just stock 4 different diameters in 3 flute configurations for this type of work.
Can anyone make any suggestions of where to look?
Commonly cutting Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless