![]() I suggest that you'll read a book on milling before you start playing with it, unless you already have done milling before or have a tutor near by. The end mill can break or even the part could fly out of the vise if not tight enough. Start up with regular high speed end mills and specially you need to understand the difference from "conventional" milling (cutting against the travel) and "Climb" milling (cutting with the travel).Ĭlimb milling on a small mill that has a degree of play on the feed screw can be a disaster ready to happen. Small mills that don't have good rigidity can waste carbide end mills.Ĭarbide tends to chip and break when there is an interrupted cut or a give. I'll suggest to only buy expensive carbide mills when you really need them. The list is big and a well tooled machine can cost more than the machine in tooling. You'll need holder to hold the end mills also, unless the unit comes with some, most don't.įor more complex work there are tons of tooling like parallels of many types, indicators, edge finders, indexing heads, rotary tables, sine plates, 1-2-3 blocks. Tooling up a milling machine depends mainly in what type and precision of the work you want to do.įor simple work, end mills, a vice is a good start. What else? I have never done milling before but I have been reading a lot of books and researching on the web, so any 'extreme newbie' suggestions will be appreciated. I know I need to pick up end mills, maybe a flycutter, and a machinist vise. I am going to buy the Harbor Freight Mini-Mill (44991) mostly for size and cost constraints. I spend most of my online time moderating on the Guns & Ammo Magazine messageboard (under the same username), so I will probably be lurking in the Gunsmithing section here. I have been a professional mechanic, welder/ metal worker, heavy equipment operator, and now sit in an office for a living. I am a mid-range tinkerer with more then a passing interest (I think the wife calls it an 'unhealthy obsession') in firearms, knifes, tools, cars, etc. This is mostly being bought to help with my hobby knifemaking, but I am already envisioning all sorts of reasons for me to turn big pieces of stuff into little chips and shavings. Hello, as suggested when I signed up, this is my introduction!
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