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    Type of end mill to make round over at top of pocket?

    Could use a ball end mill but this is for a drawing die where the material is pulled over the edge and any waves could be an issue - would need to make the passes very close together as the radius is only about 0.030". I could of course use a corner rounding end mill. Thinking I may want to try different radius numbers but want to minimize the number of cutters to buy. Thinking I could buy the largest radius I expect to need and then make several passes for tighter radius. This will give much smaller ridges than a ball end mill as the curve of the cutting edge is in the same direction as I need. Is this a reasonable plan?

    It's only an initial estimate of the radius. With such a small radius I could put it on by hand but there are some corners (rectangular pocket with radius corners that would make that harder. I also need to do some larger radius of about 0.125 so thinking I may get a large radius tool and a small radius tool (perhaps about 0.060) and try to cover whatever I end up needing with those.

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    Re: Type of end mill to make round over at top of pocket?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim27 View Post
    Could use a ball end mill but this is for a drawing die where the material is pulled over the edge and any waves could be an issue - would need to make the passes very close together as the radius is only about 0.030". I could of course use a corner rounding end mill. Thinking I may want to try different radius numbers but want to minimize the number of cutters to buy. Thinking I could buy the largest radius I expect to need and then make several passes for tighter radius. This will give much smaller ridges than a ball end mill as the curve of the cutting edge is in the same direction as I need. Is this a reasonable plan?

    It's only an initial estimate of the radius. With such a small radius I could put it on by hand but there are some corners (rectangular pocket with radius corners that would make that harder. I also need to do some larger radius of about 0.125 so thinking I may get a large radius tool and a small radius tool (perhaps about 0.060) and try to cover whatever I end up needing with those.
    ...Kellering ? was old school term for profiling (hand traced)
    https://www.kennametal.com/us/en/abo...ring--and.html

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    Re: Type of end mill to make round over at top of pocket?

    Quote Originally Posted by machinehop5 View Post
    ...Kellering ? was old school term for profiling (hand traced)
    https://www.kennametal.com/us/en/abo...ring--and.html
    Interesting video. Not sure how that can be applied to my situation beyond what I laid out - using a slightly oversized corner radius tool to make a radius with less cusp height than using a ball end mill. Seems like the same thing to me and lends support for the basic method.

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    Re: Type of end mill to make round over at top of pocket?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim27 View Post
    Could use a ball end mill but this is for a drawing die where the material is pulled over the edge and any waves could be an issue - would need to make the passes very close together as the radius is only about 0.030". I could of course use a corner rounding end mill. Thinking I may want to try different radius numbers but want to minimize the number of cutters to buy. Thinking I could buy the largest radius I expect to need and then make several passes for tighter radius. This will give much smaller ridges than a ball end mill as the curve of the cutting edge is in the same direction as I need. Is this a reasonable plan?

    It's only an initial estimate of the radius. With such a small radius I could put it on by hand but there are some corners (rectangular pocket with radius corners that would make that harder. I also need to do some larger radius of about 0.125 so thinking I may get a large radius tool and a small radius tool (perhaps about 0.060) and try to cover whatever I end up needing with those.
    If your step over is like .001 you will get a very smooth radius with a Ball nose mill, so it is all about how much time you want it to take to cut the radius, step over = time, if you need to buy a round over cutter then look at Nine9 brand they are the best there are

    https://nine9.jic-tools.com.tw/corner-rounding.htm
    Mactec54

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