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MFH-RAPTOR High-Feed Facing, Slotting, and Helical Interpolating

Kyocera’s MFH-RAPTOR high-feed milling series allows for full radial engagement and high feed rates. This makes it possible to quickly and efficiently face off large surface areas. Using an MFH3000R14-6 face mill with FL chipbreaker shown in the video leaves an excellent 7.79 Ra surface finish. The MFH-Mini can also machine deep slots using a unique convex edge design for smooth entry into the workpiece which reduces vibration and provides excellent chip evacuation.

Run machines to their full potentials with new facemilling technology

Almost every machine shop uses facemills for roughing, semifinishing and finishing, but many of these shops miss out on increased material-removal rates because they run yesterday’s tooling on today’s machine tools. The larger spindle tapers and higher horsepower ratings, feeds and speeds of modern machines need to run with the latest in facemilling cutter and insert technology to maximize a machine’s facemilling potential and thus significantly speed up production, increase efficiency and reduce cost per part, especially on larger workpieces.

A milling tools overview

09/01/2009
Author:
Frank Marlow, P.E.
An array of milling tools is available, including endmills, facemills and plain mills. Typical milling applications include facing, filleting or edge cutting, profiling, slotting, pocketing and blind slotting.
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Parts of the milling machine

07/01/2009
Author:
Frank Marlow, P.E.
Unlike lathes, which have been around for thousands of years, milling machines are less than 200 years old. Because they require much more power than hand-driven lathes, the introduction of milling machines had to wait for the invention of industrial water and steam power.
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