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Machining bronze
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plastikdreams
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You can form tap, but you might find it pushes the material around too much, if it were me I'd use a spiral tap.
Yes, tools made for aluminium will work for bronze, on the other hand inserts with bigger radii and chip breakers will do a fine job as well. I use .03 radius tools at work know bronze with no issue on id and od turning.
Yes, tools made for aluminium will work for bronze, on the other hand inserts with bigger radii and chip breakers will do a fine job as well. I use .03 radius tools at work know bronze with no issue on id and od turning.
Limy Sami
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When turning, run with the tool inverted - so it does spray chips all over the show.
plastikdreams
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Oh that's the fun part!
Limy Sami
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Not when you're not only the one who has to clear them up, suffer the financial loss of ''lost scrap'' and dig the chips out of your skin hopefully before they fester
P.S. FWIW ;- Any of the brasses and bronzes that get in in to my skin invariably fester / go bad etc etc
plastikdreams
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Not when you're not only the one who has to clear them up, suffer the financial loss of ''lost scrap'' and dig the chips out of your skin hopefully before they fester
P.S. FWIW ;- Any of the brasses and bronzes that get in in to my skin invariably fester / go bad etc etc
Eh we don't save brass/bronze...I do save copper and put it in a lunch fund bag, I do the same with wolfram.
Dan from Oakland
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"Eh we don't save brass/bronze...I do save copper". That's funny- you do realize that most bronzes are about 80% copper?
Gordon Heaton
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Yeah, but you'd think they weren't related based on recycle value. Worth saving, or not, also depends on the amount generated.
plastikdreams
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Yeah we do very little bronze brass copper. Usually I'm just making 1 or 2 bushings for maintenance.
That specific grade isn't listed to have great ductility, form tapping may be a problem depending on the thread size / part geometry. Would be interesting to read if anyone actually succeed in practice.
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