TheGreatJon
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2015
At work we have a Swiss lathe that we use for prototyping parts with a complex thread geometry (undercuts and eccentric reliefs). The implication for this discussion is that we end up breaking a lot of inserts.
I'm not the machinist (and therefore relatively ignorant in these things), but I help out from time to time when the shop is overloaded. In the hopes of cutting our own carbide inserts, I have been looking at several small manual tooling grinders. I'm currently looking at a couple of Deckels, which seem to be very compact and well reputed. I've also looked at a somewhat larger Makino C-40.
Having never done any tool grinding, I'm not sure if these machines are good options for what we want to do. Assuming that the undercuts and small sizes are the most limiting factors I've attached a neutered image of one of our smallest threads. Would either machine be capable of cutting the requisite inserts?
I'm not the machinist (and therefore relatively ignorant in these things), but I help out from time to time when the shop is overloaded. In the hopes of cutting our own carbide inserts, I have been looking at several small manual tooling grinders. I'm currently looking at a couple of Deckels, which seem to be very compact and well reputed. I've also looked at a somewhat larger Makino C-40.
Having never done any tool grinding, I'm not sure if these machines are good options for what we want to do. Assuming that the undercuts and small sizes are the most limiting factors I've attached a neutered image of one of our smallest threads. Would either machine be capable of cutting the requisite inserts?