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20th April 2014, 09:16 PM #1
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Very useful facing/roughing milling cutter
One of yesterday's jobs was to tidy up the end of this 100 x 120 x 150 piece of (I think) A36. It had been appallingly hacked off with an oxy torch (not by me), and I needed to get it flat enough so I could stand it on that end without rocking.
My weapon of choice for this sort of ugly work is what CTC sell as a 45° chamfering endmill. Its a great metal removing bargain, holder and 10 tips (40 points) in your mail box for sixty odd dollars. I find myself using it whenever I need to tidy up anything that is welded, oxy cut, rusted, scaly, pitted etc. And it also works well as a finishing cutter for small areas, width of cut is 25mm.
It might even do good chamfers, I wouldn't know.
I've taken the surface down 8mm, there are still a lot of gouges, but it will be fine for what I need it to do.
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20th April 2014, 09:27 PM #2
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Would it have been possible to cut it in the hacksaw? That cut looks like they used a cutting tip that was about 5 sizes to small, or that my first wife chewed it off
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Nice finish though.
Kryn
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21st April 2014, 09:50 PM #3
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Bob Ward,
I have the same tool from CTC that I bought when they we first released, they have snuck up in price over the years, but still great value. I use mine mostly for chamfering and they do a great job. I just set it up to work on the fixed jaw of the vice and rotate the part. Very nice to see all the chamfers line up.
Bob
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22nd April 2014, 09:13 AM #4
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G'Day Bob,
I also have the same cutter and find it great for roughing and chamfering, it's also terrific for making soft vice jaws to hold round stock, setup a length of aluminium angle backed with a lump of steel to prevent vibration, plow through it about 20mm from the top, then chop it in half and you're done.
Regards,
Martin
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