BMackinnon
The only inserted cutter I have seems to be to much for the machines we have. It is a 1.25 Dia Serria Sine III endmill, but I just can't seem to tune it in using Valanite's recommended SFM for the selection of inserts for it. I forgot to say the bore size as pointed out. It was 2.371 +.001 -0.0 as specified by the customer.
Geof
I had thought to use a helical toolpath which would have been equivalant to a single flute cutter. Mainly to have the convience of set it and forget it so I can keep the other machines we have cutting. I had thought to not use the offset boring head to prevent the need to adjust it for a finish pass. I figured it would be slower, but if it was a consistant and held my tolerance and gave a nice finish I thought it might be worth taking a little longer. If it is going to be an excessive amount of extra time, or give me a poor result then I need to figure something else out.
I'm basically trying to learn different ways to do the same job. Now that I have some help taking some of the load in the shop off of me I'm trying to expand my bag of tricks and learn more about this trade.
Thanks
Scott
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