ProvenCut recipe 551 shows how to achieve a high material removal rate while maintaining a reliable cut using a light-duty machine with a 6.35 mm (0.25") endmill to slot 4140 alloy steel.

The video, a supplement to our Shop Operations column in the June 2020 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering, shows the slotting operation in action. To learn more about when full-diameter steel slotting is the only option, read the related Shop Operations column.

Stay-at-home machine monitoring

06/16/2020

Author:

William Leventon

As the pandemic forces remote machining operations, Balance Systems Corp. is at the ready with its B-Safe spindle monitoring system.

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The chuck stops here

05/18/2020

Author:

Brandt Taylor

Speed up z datum setting on your lathe with a Stop Jaw

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Meeting micromachining's need for speed

05/13/2020

Author:

Larry Adams

Spindle speeders amply RPMs and get old machines moving faster

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Fastened for flight

05/04/2020

Author:

Kip Hanson

Some of the most critical parts found in an airplane are also the smallest and most abundant.

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Printing large objects fast

04/28/2020

Author:

Ken Schnepf

The High-Area Rapid printing 3D printer prints objects as large as an adult human in just a couple of hours.

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Machining a hardened ring gear

Using a Tormach 1100 CNC mill, ProvenCut demonstrates Recipe 502, a Fusion 360 adaptive roughing strategy run at 12.2 m/min. (40 sfm) and 0.033 mm/tooth (0.0013 ipt) with a 15.875 mm (0.625") axial DOC (ap) and 0.508 mm (0.02") radial DOC (ae). The demonstration shows a standard four-flute carbide endmill machining 8620 alloy steel hardened to 55 HRC.