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  1. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    There is place for the technology when certain objectives need to be met. Shrink tooling is ubiquitous now and requires in some cases merely a hand held heat gun. I’ve had 1/2 carbide endmills pull out of a shrink holder as well. It is great for high speed finishing where runout matters...
  2. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    In the past, I sold Haimer shrink tooling and balancing equipment, don’t get me started on grip, stability and balancing.
  3. Stellrammer

    Product Feeds and Speeds is there a free no license PC program?

    I’ve taken a brief tour through their offerings. It’s an excellent product from what I’ve seen. It’s easy to use if you already understand the terminology they use. They also do a pretty good job of explaining the terminology, though that would take hours to go through and then a lot of...
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    Product Feeds and Speeds is there a free no license PC program?

    If in steel, of unknown veracity, from scrap behind the shed, it’s a guessing game until the tool hits it. In mild low carbon or “ free” machine steels like 1018, cold rolled etc and up to higher carbon and most tool steels you can watch how the chip changes colour. Brownish is low heat, dark...
  5. Stellrammer

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    With aluminum speed is wide open until chip welding starts to occur, you can spin that cutter to 1500 rpm with those inserts if you had enough power, as fast as you can hand crank it.
  6. Stellrammer

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    I’ve been too lazy to to do that, but I should, good to have some flat bottom ones that are free to roam about for those awkward shapes.
  7. Stellrammer

    Tool Face Mill recommendations please

    Those are ground inserts for aluminum, a very fine grain of carbide with low binder content, not really for steel. The H is by memory a ground tolerance designation, k is as pressed. K tolerance, as pressed chipbreaker, would utilize a coarser grain structure and higher binder(cobalt) content to...
  8. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Nothing as sordid as that, I paid the “tourist tax” to the wrong guy, the sheriff was just making a point. When the sailboat and crew returned to Negril from Montego they were sure to pay their respects to both parties.
  9. Stellrammer

    Metal working - dry / lubricants / coatings / cooling mist

    Failure to report/ illegal entry, harbour master was a bit casual in logging entry.
  10. Stellrammer

    Tool Tooling up a milling machine

    Interesting the difference in 15-20 years of age makes when using Metric vs Imperial. I cannot casually use Metric, I’m constantly converting to and working in fractional. With having the US stubbornly refuse to use Metric we still have this bewildering blend, and using older machinery it is...
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