Climb milling vs conventional millingpros and cons

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Conventional milling is the traditional approach when cutting because the backlash, or the play between the lead screw and the nut in the machine table, is eliminated. Recently, however, climb milling has been recognized as the preferred way to approach a workpiece due to the fact that more and more machines compensate for backlash or have a backlash eliminator.