Surfacing

[SyilAmerica]

I've been doing some short videos. Here's one surfacing some aluminum.

Surfacing

You'll have to excuse the quality. I'm not much of a camera man, or producer of video.

6061 Aluminum
1" Two flute
3400 rpm
.05" per pass
54 ipm


The bit I'm using is a cheap "little hogger". They use really inexpensive inserts. I like using it to take off lots of material. I haven't pushed it hard enough to break it yet, but I have taken .08" at 54 ipm.

Next one to test is the 2" facing mill. I think I'll start conservative, like .035 per pass and work from there. Anyone had any experiance with face mills with their Syil Super X3?

[jinu117]

Nope. But after seeing it, I am ready to get few things (including that height gague thing! I can imagine myself saving so much time).

[thackman]

I think the sample videos are a huge help. Tormach does the same thing on their site to help users get a feel for the speeds and feeds their machine is capable for various operations.