RCS Machine
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2018
- Location
- Deerwood, MN
I've done a little bit of HSM, by no means an expert. When it comes to choosing an endmill style, what is preferred, a square tipped or corner radius tip? I've always been the guy that only cuts steel with a square tip if it's absolutely necessary. Thinking the corner rad will always hold up better and keep it's tips much longer than the square.
One of the shops I sometime sub for mainly uses square tips when they HSM. I asked them about tip wear and they looked at me funny and said they never have an issue. Is it because more of the cutter is engaged and cutting with the entire flute, not just the tips like if you were helixing down a hole or pocket?
I have gotten into the scenario where I am loaded up with square tips and if they hold up as well as the corner rads do I'll start chewing through them too.
Thanks.
One of the shops I sometime sub for mainly uses square tips when they HSM. I asked them about tip wear and they looked at me funny and said they never have an issue. Is it because more of the cutter is engaged and cutting with the entire flute, not just the tips like if you were helixing down a hole or pocket?
I have gotten into the scenario where I am loaded up with square tips and if they hold up as well as the corner rads do I'll start chewing through them too.
Thanks.