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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: GRAYHIL on July 24, 2013, 07:41:34 AM

Title: 2 flute grinding
Post by: GRAYHIL on July 24, 2013, 07:41:34 AM

Hi All
Thought I would try this!
http://s285.photobucket.com/user/GRAYHIL/media/flutegrinding.mp4.html?sort=3&o=0
Graham

Getting the flute angle is awkward.

Title: Re: 2 flute grinding
Post by: DICKEYBIRD on July 24, 2013, 10:35:57 AM

That's fantastic Graham!  I dream about a machine like that. ;D

Can you post some details about the machine itself or have you posted something somewhere & I've missed it?

Title: Re: 2 flute grinding
Post by: GRAYHIL on July 24, 2013, 12:41:32 PM

Hi Dickybird
Its a 1950 ish colchester master lathe used as a 4 axis mill . X is the cross slide, Y is the vertical slide and Z is the top slide.
The 4th axis A is a rotary table which can be unplugged and a vice fitted instead.
The vertical slide and rotary table can be taken off and sustituted for the original toolpost and then I can use it as a Mach 3 lathe.
Graham

Title: Re: 2 flute grinding
Post by: RICH on July 27, 2013, 07:17:54 AM

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Getting the flute angle is awkward.

Not when you have a Darex end mill sharpener......guess I'm spoiled.  ;)

RICH