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    make yourself a block with several sized holes to...

    make yourself a block with several sized holes to guide your tap in, if by hand.

    if you want brands, yes in industry some are better, otherwise, "motor oil is motor oil"
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    at work i use a 1 year old tits out dell, no...

    at work i use a 1 year old tits out dell, no complaints with dell. xeon processors, a too much space HD etc. only bogs down when doing an extreme surfcam 3d offset contour

    home 1 -ath 64 1.8g 1...
  3. whatever happened to ski-cut lol

    whatever happened to ski-cut lol
  4. 6061 you lucky dog!, when i get alum its alumold...

    6061 you lucky dog!, when i get alum its alumold or comparable, i tell my co-worker to run it wet but he dosent and he gets build up, so in conclusion, i reccomend full flood coolant for any and all...
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    huh? not knowing what your describing.... a J&L...

    huh? not knowing what your describing.... a J&L catalog offers radius cutters in 1/16 sizes, or dress a radius on an endmill, or dress an endmill to have a step diameter, or use a drill or ball...
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    wow neat question, i dont think its a question of...

    wow neat question, i dont think its a question of lubricant efficiancy, i would reccomend that you have a sturdy setup, and your on center of the bottle (assuming your side drilling) then... its a...
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    plastics

    well im not familiar with pet or such, have used delrin, polycarbonate, phenolic, uhmw, g4, abs, too many to remember,

    now in my shop we use Nylon, its hard and resisiant, and with carb inserts,...
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    oops

    had a fork truck driver pull a die out of my mill. well it fell off the forks, and took out the control box, the controll box fell to the floor, min cost 15k
  9. Thread: heat to chip?

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    v

    meant to say -button cutter? huh
    is that those new curved inserts-light cuts -very hi speed
  10. Thread: heat to chip?

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    2" 5 fl .o32 rad corner, iskar, a2- 600sfm, 4140...

    2" 5 fl .o32 rad corner, iskar, a2- 600sfm, 4140 500sfm
    button cutter

    hire strippers for optimum results
  11. Thread: heat to chip?

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    Try, i do the same as u. we go .125 dp /pass in...

    Try, i do the same as u. we go .125 dp /pass
    in a pocket sitch, we use a guy with a air gun, to keep chips/heat out

    drill biggest hole at first, 1.5" current
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    Sticky: oh its on! you have time to make art? i recently...

    oh its on! you have time to make art?
    i recently did a hard drive upgrade but im gonna show ya some stuff, soon,
    thanks for your submissions, not trying to be cocky :)

    soon to be posted- cam...
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    ya tapmatic

    ya tapmatic
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    special tool shop. na, anyone can do, cost,...

    special tool shop. na, anyone can do, cost, volume and availability is what you need to look at
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    na, havent messed with 7075 in years but id...

    na, havent messed with 7075 in years but id guess, 900 sfm with inserts, (2" 5fl ) im gonna throw out a gut instinct of 4 min each , 1.5 DR then 2" 5fl insert then a fininsh end mill type thingy
    ...
  16. crs flame cut- 600. yea its lame/ or grind off...

    crs flame cut- 600. yea its lame/ or grind off via peon and try 700-800
  17. so as a rule of thumb. and anyone offering better...

    so as a rule of thumb. and anyone offering better please do

    carbide insert (sfm) milling

    4140-500 ....-P hardened 400
    A-2 -600
    a-2 annealed 400-500
    crs case hard 400
    hard mill...
  18. hey ppl, i made a product when i was living in...

    hey ppl, i made a product when i was living in seattle, i think its under the brand Ideal, i have one, now that i use 8" vises exclusevly i cant use, It has two sprong loaded tubes and 2 bars that...
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    when you say simple machine, thats kind of...

    when you say simple machine, thats kind of limiting. yes i can say a 1985 mill can do what you want, but im using surfcam, lots of money, and can the 1985 mill make it fast enough for you?, i think...
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    just occured to me, if your making 3/4 pass,...

    just occured to me, if your making 3/4 pass, dosent this kinda point to motor (?) ratings, i forget the term, damn my lousy maint. schooling.- load? duty?
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    not a fan of tree but i'll offer what i can, you...

    not a fan of tree but i'll offer what i can, you mentioned annealed plates, can i assume this is A-2? with normal a2 i run at 600sfm, with annealed it might be 400-500, (im using a big cnc)
    your...
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    crashes and destruction

    says it all 'eh, might be fun, our mishaps...
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    what we had when i was in a total edm shop was a...

    what we had when i was in a total edm shop was a smartscope, its about 30-40k, this is a computer attached to an x-y axis, and the z axis is a camera,
    it zooms up and down, lovely for checking many...
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    nice, havent done that in 7 yrs. back then with...

    nice, havent done that in 7 yrs. back then with surfcam ver.71i i think i edited the post, added a m27 or m28, between subroutines. I think we had a nice SMF, or SWV indexer something like that....
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    most of us get burned by this, ive learned to...

    most of us get burned by this, ive learned to save often when im confident, save under a new name -ex. part1, part2, when im unsure, and when undo isnt there and it was messed up, just go to file-and...
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    ya

    single line fonts are the stroke fonts, the default, there is another name for these, (scratch head) i think its vector font. (as opposed to true type fonts)

    the basis is that parts of each letter...
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    hi, i like what the first 2 posters have to say,...

    hi, i like what the first 2 posters have to say, and maybe i dont understand what your doing, Im kinda with NewTexas, as i would drill out the corners and reduce endmill sizes. perhaps innefficient....
  28. i think i could get you a post for a really old...

    i think i could get you a post for a really old charmille edm. let me know your thoughts
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    hehe delrin !

    lol its cool, i used that stuff in the late 90's (a black plastic of a machinable grade) lucky you! i'll wager to guess its for the camera industry :)

    aah i miss delrin, those days gone by when...
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    yea amm wtf, you get to order a machine to do...

    yea amm wtf, you get to order a machine to do hard milling? what are you paris hilton? for the rest of us low lifes we have to make do with iskar 9030 inserts (brand?) and we do pretty well ty,...
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