Source for miniature tapered endmill in stock?

Any idea where I can get a 12° per side tapered endmill with about a 1/32" tip diameter off the shelf? Carbide preferred, cutting grade 5 Ti. I've checked Harvey and MSC and come up empty. If I can't find one I'll just have to surface the feature with a ball; small quantities and in a hurry.

Thanks,

-Matt

mhajicek said:

Any idea where I can get a 12° per side tapered endmill with about a 1/32" tip diameter off the shelf? Carbide preferred, cutting grade 5 Ti. I've checked Harvey and MSC and come up empty. If I can't find one I'll just have to surface the feature with a ball; small quantities and in a hurry.

Thanks,

-Matt

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I don't see a 12° included as a standard, but since it's something they can modify a standard into, they'll usually do a small quantity with a couple day lead time for more or less the same price as a standard.

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For the cost/time depending on your volume, good quality ball endmills are cheap in comparison. It also depends on your surface finish requirements...

I can refer you to my local grinder that I have make most of my tooling... Harvey is pathetic and I feel terrible for you guys that buy from them.

Fal Grunt said:

For the cost/time depending on your volume, good quality ball endmills are cheap in comparison. It also depends on your surface finish requirements...

I can refer you to my local grinder that I have make most of my tooling... Harvey is pathetic and I feel terrible for you guys that buy from them.

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Please elaborate.

Delivery time, quality, price? They are our goto for the small (less than .03" typically) circuit board drills and endmills we can't find at MSC....

I'm not seeing a tip diameter that small from Conical Cutting Toolsbut they may be able to whip one or two out quick.

I have no experience with their circuit board drills. However, quality and price are both, in my experience, terrible.

I used them in the past for:

keyseat cutters - expensive junk
dovetail cutters - expensive junk

I did have good luck with a full radius keyseat cutter that I got from them. It ran all 30 pcs, which considering past performance, I was pleased.

Here is a recent example, so it is fresh in my memory.

I needed a somewhat special (not really) dovetail cutter. The wall above the dovetail was taller than most cutters would allow. I had a harvey tool, a 2fl coated 3/16" cutter. It was terribly slow given the neck diameter I ground for clearance. They also cut like crap because they have a 1920's flat cutting face. The best fit for this part from Harvey was a 5/16" 3fl if I remember right. An uncoated was around the $100 mark.

So, 5/16" 3fl that cuts terrible. 2-3 day delivery. For about $115 with shipping.

Emailed my grinder a print on wednesday, got an email friday I could pick it up. I asked if they would ship it, received it monday.

6fl, 3/8", with HELICAL cutting edges as opposed to a flat face, $112 delivered.

They make all of my custom tools, which is, to say, not a lot, a couple/few $k a year.

mhajicek said:

Any idea where I can get a 12° per side tapered endmill with about a 1/32" tip diameter off the shelf? Carbide preferred, cutting grade 5 Ti. I've checked Harvey and MSC and come up empty. If I can't find one I'll just have to surface the feature with a ball; small quantities and in a hurry.

Thanks,

-Matt

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SGS /kyocera Scarb guys has a in house custom shop that turns endmills around in 2-3 days. we used them recently and was extreamly Happy and shocked at the same time. Price wise didnt cost us a little bit more than a standard endmill. ours were od ball rads that left a .010 flat on the bottom of a 1/8 endmill and some 1/4 in ones.

email this guy he's in AZ but a rep for them.
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His name is Trace

I'm going to cut them with a ball this time, but I ordered some custom from Frank Mari for next time. Price was much better than I expected.

I buy a lot from Award cutter