Re: Machining Macor, feeds and speeds?
I once read an article, on a way to reduce machining time.
What you do, for the bulk of the removal of the material... is drill it. You drill all bulk material away.
When End Milling, you may step over, possibly 1/2 or less because of strain on the cutter. It just cannot handle the heavy side loads.
In order to remove vast amount of material fast, they drilled. Drilling strait down... the tool can handle the full diameter of the cutter.
So they used a drill pattern, and removed nearly all the bulk, then went back with one rough cut, and one finish cut. The time to do
the part was greatly reduced.
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I have used this method on slotting... to remove the bulk of the material, then went back in and finished the operation.
You may already know this, only food for thought.
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