Ok, heres the scoop,
What we need it for is making master patterns for making candles. We then take the patterns and make silicon molds to pour wax into to produce sale samples of candles for the sales department to show major clients.
The candles have decorative patterns cut into or out of them and when we cut every 15* we get undercuts as we get to the outside edges of that 15*. We would like to eliminate this and having to index it at all. The perfect scenario would be to as, Ron Popeil says; "set it and forget it"!
We do mostly round candles in the 3", 4", 6" diameters and some squares in the same dimensions. It would be perfect to have one NC Post instead of twelve and that would free our time to work on other projects (non candles - actual fun stuff
). As far as coolant, speeds and so on, these bucks are made from Renshape so we can get pretty aggressive without worrying to much. About the only thing that could go wrong it breaking a .032 ball cutter on the final Z finish pass to clean it all up or chipping out small .062 chunks in the roughing passes, if we get to aggressive.
Thanks for your all of your input,
Bill