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02-25-2021, 10:28 PM #41
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02-26-2021, 04:07 AM #42
A dovetail cutter? A DOVETAIL CUTTER! He wants to use a dovetail cutter.
A 6mm, 60 degree dovetail cutter.
So you are cutting a dovetail? Or some other 60 degree feature. I could be wrong and the others here will probably bring up many instances where I have been, but and in my HUMBLE opinion and limited experience with cutting dovetails (yes I have cut them), you do not need an exact sized cutter to cut a dovetail. Each size dovetail cutter will cut a range of dovetails.
But what does your 6mm refer to, the shank or the cutter's maximum diameter? In any case, there is no reason why you need to get a "6mm" one. You could just as easily use a "1/4" one, weather that be the shank size or the cutting diameter. And that should be available from multiple sources.
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02-26-2021, 04:49 AM #43
Yes.
Nothing planned, yet.
Yes, but if you need the widest part of the dovetail to be only 6mm, which I do, a 1/4" cutter won't work. (6mm = 0.23622in).
6mm I'm talking about is the maximum diameter of the cutting part of the cutter. I'm creating an application specific holder for a DTI, and the dovetails are 6mm at their widest.
I could have gotten a smaller cutter, but 6mm is already small enough to be more fragile than my skills can probably deal with.
Nope. As explained above.
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02-26-2021, 06:57 AM #44
43 posts in, you finally tell us what's afoot... and it isn't even ABOUT the shank size .. for a component that isn't even best addressed with an endmill at all?
When the only tool you THINK you have is a hammer the whole nail becomes your world?
No one else in the whole universe ever needed to grasp an ignorant DI/DTI dovetail?
Who told you THAT lie?
Store bought dovetail mounts only exist in a few HUNDRED varieties one can use directly else simply "rob" for their dovetail attach portion. Adjustable or otherwise.
They start at under EIGHT US dollars.
Gof-uck-ing-ogle that.
Ate bux won't even cover the bar tab you've run up f*****g everyone about, will it?
It's yer COMMUNICATION skills as are "fragile", Pilgrim.
Learn from that. Please.
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02-27-2021, 05:21 AM #45
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02-27-2021, 09:14 AM #46
OOOOOH goody 44 post and no-ones mentioned it
PM purists wind up time alarm, ............you don't even need a split sleeve, because green loctite retaining compound will keep a sleeve on and end mills shank, ...(as it will a twist drill, countersink and / or bore, a reamer and even a tap (but don't let on you heard that from me or 4X knows what fate will befall me)
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02-27-2021, 09:27 AM #47
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02-27-2021, 09:49 AM #48
Split sleeves can be made. I find them problematic unless it is acceptable to get a job out quick.I am a believer in buying collets and holders. To get jobs out the door I have made them before.
Something to remember is that most all things which are available for sale to buy then buy them as too much time can be burned up making something that may not even run true enough.
If you do not have the option then sure take it on.
Good luck.
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02-27-2021, 12:31 PM #49
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