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Kip Hanson is a freelance writer and manufacturing consultant. Hanson, who is the proprietor of KAHMCO LLC, has more than 40 years experience in manufacturing, machine tools, fabrication and ERP systems. In addition, Hanson is a contributing editor at Manufacturing Engineering, Shop Metalworking Technology and others. He has been writing about manufacturing technology since 1998.
If you’re going to do a lot of drilling, I would create a “Drill” library. Otherwise just add them to the “End Mills” section, and name them “Drill_”.
Navarrete is talking about Iscar’s HELITURN line of tangentially clamped turning tools. As he explains, these offer greater stability in the pocket, not only improving tool life and surface quality but also significantly increasing the tool’s metal removal capabilities. “It also provides much better predictability, an attribute that’s particularly relevant to shops that wish to run lights-out,” he says.
“One of the drawbacks of ISO standard tools is that they typically rely on a top clamp, eccentric screw or some combination of the two to hold the insert in place,” says Robert Navarrete, national product specialist for parting, grooving and turning. “Yet these can allow a microscopic amount of insert lift, leading to vibration and reduced tool life. A dovetail-style geometry and on-edge clamping system eliminate this by taking pressure off the screw and redirecting it into the pocket.”
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I tried using drills on a couple jobs & just didn’t like the results. I do all of my “Hole making” now with hole milling. Essentially a pocket with the next size smaller tool, and a pocket with a shallow ramp (1-2°). I get much better results with climb cutting, so I program them in another software.
Please note that it only has the torque to use smaller tooling in harder materials — we recommend 1/4" endmills only be used in wax and renshape and similar less demanding stock.
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1. The little chip particles and dust will cause jamming in the oil hold. A fine mesh filter should be used to prevent such jamming, especially for small-diameter drills.
“That’s one of the reasons why we’ve begun marking our inserts with QR codes, which allow the user to scan the code with a smartphone and pull up the product page showing the correct cutting parameters for the material you’re currently turning,” McCord says. “They also provide traceability back to the manufacturing process in case of a problem and make it easier to dispense individual inserts from a vending machine. As with many of our customers, Seco Tools is very focused on continuous improvement, and this is just one more example of that.”
But considering that a new toolholder and box of inserts sell for a few hundred bucks or so, it’s a small price to pay for the potential benefits.
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“We’re also seeing great success with our PrimeTurning offering, which uses a similar chip-thinning strategy, as well as the eight-sided CoroTurn 800,” Winter says. “Yes, these solutions require some changes to your turning strategy but are well worth the time investment for shops that are working with difficult materials or looking for ways to leapfrog their competition.”
If you use drill bits in the machine, please be certain that they are rated to spin safely at the speed which the trim router/spindle spins at.
You can drill, but the machine wasn’t designed to do it. The problem is the spindle speed. It doesn’t go slow enough to accommodate the design of a typical twist drill. They are designed for much slower speeds. they do make “Router Drills” that will do better.
Like Winter, he encourages shops to explore alternative toolpaths, with ISO inserts or otherwise. He also notes that recent innovations in toolholding can bring significant results.
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Peruse a supplier’s tooling catalog or website and you’ll quickly find an overwhelming variety of indexable tooling. Profiling tools, groovers and threaders, boring inserts, indexable and modular drills, cutoff tools—there’s no shortage of high-quality turning tools out there, all designed to make lathe turning operations more profitable and part quality more consistent.
Keeping an assortment of brazed carbide tool bits and solid carbide rounds in the tool crib is probably a good idea. You never know when you may need to hand-grind a special tool for an oddly shaped part or hard-to-reach area.
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Trochoidal turning (also known by the trade names Dynamic Turning and VoluTurn) can be done with ISO-standard round inserts, but it’s more effective when the insert has a rail interface for graduated indexing, as with the company’s CoroTurn 107 RCMT.
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Thanks for the suggestion for the spindle, I will watch the rest of the video on it but it says its for the shapeoko machine. My primary interest is the Nomad3 as I am not interested in machining wood or plastic.
Unfortunately, you’ll also find it chock-full of exceptions. In their ongoing effort to address the machining world’s ever-evolving landscape, cutting tool manufacturers continue to develop novel, often proprietary solutions that don’t fit neatly into any standardized set of guidelines.
“There’s a lot to consider during insert selection,” says Robert Keilmann, marketing portfolio manager at the company. “ISO turning tools are suitable for a great many applications, but given the huge variety of parts and materials in this landscape, not to mention the evolution of CNC machine tools, we’ve found it necessary to develop turning tools that provide effective chip formation and extended tool life on lower-horsepower machinery. Our FIX8 line does exactly that.”
You’ll get a better result if you use a smaller tool and mill as a pocket — Garr is notable for doing long reach endmills — it can be a bit tricky geometry-wise, but hopefully will be workable.
While choosing the right turning insert and toolholding system is critical, so is proper process development, says Seco Tools Indexable Product Specialist Jay McCord. Too often, shops don’t follow the manufacturer’s feed and speed recommendations and fail to use a scientific approach to troubleshooting, including documenting one change at a time.
Indexable tools make machine setups faster and easier while significantly reducing the downtime associated with tool changes, but choosing the best insert can be tricky. Here’s what you need to know.
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New here and trying to learn Carbide create to make aluminum parts. These are parts I’ve made for years on my manual mill. The holes need to be drilled, not milled by pocketing, as they are too deep for that method. I’ve no problem holding the drills in a collet. When I go into Toolpaths and select the Drill function and then a tool there are no drills (what’s with that?) and if I try to create my own tool tray it populates with just end mills etc. If I try to just input my own tool with a plunge rate, peck etc but zero stepover (because I don’t want any) the program won’t do it. So…can you drill on this machine or only do pockets? I mean ya…I can use the program to do a shallow pocket which will at least locate the hole and drill it later on a drill press…but the point of buying this machine is to have it do what I want…not half of it.
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Winter and the other experts are happy to help customers decode the ISO standard and find the optimal insert for a given application, but as Winter points out, even the perfect grade, shape and coating will often bring only small gains.
Drill bits are designed to run at lower speeds that a router is capable to run at speeds. Dont use regular drill bits on Shapeoko.They sell router end mills designed to drill.
A good place to start is by learning the ISO 1832 standard, which, according to the International Organization for Standardization, “establishes a code for the designation of the usual types of indexable inserts for cutting tools in hard cutting materials or any other cutting materials, in order to simplify orders and specifications for such inserts.”
I didn’t realize this was a one-speed machine, I must look into that further before deciding if I will purchase the Nomad, good to know.
“Proper insert selection depends on many factors,” says John Winter, a turning product specialist at Sandvik Coromant. “Workpiece material and geometry are high on the list, but choosing an insert with adequate edge line security for the operation—a tool that can handle interrupted cuts, for instance—is equally important.”
For most turning operations, though, indexable carbide tools make machine setups both faster and easier while significantly reducing the downtime associated with tool changes. Which still leaves one problem: deciding which insert is right for the job.
“The flip side of the FIX8 is that you can take much heavier cuts than with a WNMG- or CNMG-style rougher, and do so even on lighter-duty machines,” he says. “And since you have eight cutting edges to work with, the cost per part is generally lower as well.”
Iscar USA, a member of the IMC Group, is another cutting tool manufacturer pursuing continuous improvement opportunities for its customers, which is why the company isn’t afraid of setting aside the ISO 1832 standard when it makes sense.
If you’re going to use twist drills, very shallow pecks with complete chip clearing (retract out of the hole on every peck). Air blast or coolant on the tool (It’s going to get hot). Never cut past the flute length of the tool. chips will fill the flute, rub, and get even hotter.
2. Dirt and dust particles will adhere to the oil hold and lead to unsmooth coolant flow. Coolant change as early as possible is recommended.
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You could also order a Spindle & VFD from Carbide. The only problem is they sell out immediately whenever they get posted on the website.
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“Our 3D-printed Jetstream coolant clamps deliver cutting fluid to the correct location for different turning applications like heavy roughing, roughing and finishing,” he says. “They can also be used with our Steadyline brand of modular boring bars, which have an internal dampening mechanism to eliminate chatter, improve surface finish and increase productivity.”
Or use a third party program, like Vectric Vcarve, that allows you to set a drilling strategy, like peck drilling. Depending on the project I’m working on, I’ll use Fusion 360, Vectric Vcarve, Meshcam, or Sheetcam. Each one has there strong points.
My primary product with my CNC is cribbage boards so I use the drill tool path all the time. I dropped the speed on my router as low as it will go and just set these up as 1/8 inch endmills. My drilling is not all that deep though and always into wood.
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“If we see that a shop can enjoy a 20 percent improvement in either tool life or productivity, we’re happy to present that to them in a written pre-sales test report and then prove it to them on the production floor,” Navarrete says. “Return on investment is generally quite fast when adopting a new tooling technology like this, with some customers saving tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s pretty much a no-brainer.”
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That was a very abbreviated tour through the ISO 1832 standard, now on its sixth edition and spanning 24 pages. You’ll find it a helpful starting point on your road to insert selection.
Hitting a home run might require thinking outside the ISO box, he says. “If you’re striving for consistent 15 percent to 25 percent increases in productivity, you should look at changing your whole process. Using trochoidal toolpaths during roughing operations is one such approach.”
Ready for a quick ISO introduction? Pick up a “typical” box of turning inserts—some CNMG432 roughers, for example, or VPGR331 profiling tools—and follow along:
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There’s just one caveat, though, and it applies to each of the proprietary solutions described here and elsewhere: Machine shops must invest in new toolholders, followed by reprogramming and process optimization.
Sandvik Coromant is not alone. Abhay Chaubal, product manager for the Americas at Seco Tools, is quick to point out that the company’s MF2 chipbreaker and RCMT insert solve the all-too-common chip control problem encountered when using round inserts.
I’m guessing if it were possible to go any larger than this then there would be a recipe for that too but maybe they didn’t try.