helocat
Aluminum
- Joined
- May 13, 2010
- Location
- Newberg, Oregon
I have a steel part 3” OD that we weld a top plate to. We are looking to add threads to the OD of the part the fastest way possible after the welding is done. We only need 1.5” of threads and looking at 12tpi but can go 10tpi. Thinking thread milling would be the fastest as we can mount multiple of these parts on a custom pallet. (We make 600 per run)
I have never done thread milling before do you cut it in multiple passes or just one shot? Am I thinking right this would be about a 30 second or so cut?
DO thread mills hold up past 600 parts? Can they be sharpened?
Can an OD thread mill also cut ID threads? Seams the same to me but the tooling guys all have them listed as OD/ID.
Would be cutting these on a Haas VF2SS.
I have never done thread milling before do you cut it in multiple passes or just one shot? Am I thinking right this would be about a 30 second or so cut?
DO thread mills hold up past 600 parts? Can they be sharpened?
Can an OD thread mill also cut ID threads? Seams the same to me but the tooling guys all have them listed as OD/ID.
Would be cutting these on a Haas VF2SS.