Need Help!- Haas vs Inconel

[espinja]

Our company is looking to buy a Haas VF2 VMC. This is for a new process to cut turbine engine inconel Blades, there aren't heat treated yet.

My question is if anybody has experience cutting inconel with haas vf2 machine.
Need to know if the machine is going to have any trouble cutting thru this hard material.


......Thanks

[mls]

We have done this on a 1998 vf4 it works but we only have 6 pcs at a time and it is not a big area we are machining.
I think if you are not trying to use big tools it will work fine if you are going to try to hog metal with a 1 inch mill it is not the machine for you.
Good Luck Mike

[SlowRiderr]

Originally Posted by espinja Our company is looking to buy a Haas VF2 VMC. This is for a new process to cut turbine engine inconel Blades, there aren't heat treated yet. My question is if anybody has experience cutting inconel with haas vf2 machine. Need to know if the machine is going to have any trouble cutting thru this hard material. ......Thanks

A new or used machine? What spindle are you getting?

[crabbass]

Originally Posted by espinja Our company is looking to buy a Haas VF2 VMC. This is for a new process to cut turbine engine inconel Blades, there aren't heat treated yet. My question is if anybody has experience cutting inconel with haas vf2 machine. Need to know if the machine is going to have any trouble cutting thru this hard material. ......Thanks

I cut a lot of high temperature alloys on our VF3, however I do not do any quantities that anyone would call production. Get the gearbox option, and good luck, this is a very competitive industry, If the design isn't new, someone will beat you out with a forged product.
And for your information, Inconel isn't necessarily hard, it is abrasion resistant, the hardness is usually measured in the brinell scale, and It doesn't go through a heat treatment for hardness, rather it is solution annealed to normalize the structure.