Homemade Rounding Table
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Cedge on homemodelenginemachinist.com
DESCRIPTION:
Homemade rounding table fabricated from aluminum, brass, and steel.
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(1)
Dec 16, 2016 10:14 PM
Toolmaker51
All your recommendations on use and SAFETY are well-founded; including avoidance of climb milling. If users think what happened when a climb cut was taken, under weight of table and control of lead screw; you think you can react quickly or with sufficient strength. Bet not. Also correct on the use of small end mills - small and the more flutes the better. If you can find Right hand helix, with Left Hand Cut. It directs the cut downward, vice pulling on the part - not unlike bandsawing.
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DIY Rounding Table - comment on how to build a Rounding Table - 1 comments
Toolmaker51 says:
Dec 16, 2016 10:14 PM
All your recommendations on use and SAFETY are well-founded; including avoidance of climb milling. If users think what happened when a climb cut was taken, under weight of table and control of lead screw; you think you can react quickly or with sufficient strength. Bet not. Also correct on the use of small end mills - small and the more flutes the better. If you can find Right hand helix, with Left Hand Cut. It directs the cut downward, vice pulling on the part - not unlike bandsawing.
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