Seems @gerritv has me going on machining practices in Europe.
I've realized almost all my carbide inserts list metric machining data right on the insert package but no imperial information. This doesn't work for me. At least not yet anyway. I didn't encounter the metric system till after university. My brain works in imperial not metric.
Doing the conversion itself is trivial with a calculator but I'd like it to be even easier. A set of three graphs covering depth of cut, surface velocity, and feed rate would make life pretty easy. I think it might also expedite automating the thought process the same way that rulers and speedometers have. I can rather instantly convert inches to centimeters and kilometers to miles. Three simple graphs would do that for machining too.
I could just print them out if they were on the internet someplace, but I can't seem to find anything like that. Yet I would have thought they would be everywhere! Best would be one graph with all three lines on it. Or perhaps even just one line with the three axis coordinates in different colors. Or even three vertical or horizontal scales with the two units on each side.
Anybody else have such a thing or know where I can find it?
What do you do?
I've realized almost all my carbide inserts list metric machining data right on the insert package but no imperial information. This doesn't work for me. At least not yet anyway. I didn't encounter the metric system till after university. My brain works in imperial not metric.
Doing the conversion itself is trivial with a calculator but I'd like it to be even easier. A set of three graphs covering depth of cut, surface velocity, and feed rate would make life pretty easy. I think it might also expedite automating the thought process the same way that rulers and speedometers have. I can rather instantly convert inches to centimeters and kilometers to miles. Three simple graphs would do that for machining too.
I could just print them out if they were on the internet someplace, but I can't seem to find anything like that. Yet I would have thought they would be everywhere! Best would be one graph with all three lines on it. Or perhaps even just one line with the three axis coordinates in different colors. Or even three vertical or horizontal scales with the two units on each side.
Anybody else have such a thing or know where I can find it?
What do you do?
