Gentlemen, My 2 cents (it is old experience) For my first 10 (1979-1989) years in a machine shop I ran mostly CNC lathes. Not exclusive but predominately lathes. Both operating and supervising. After that preface I will say I do not like carbide cut off tools. You can spend a LOT of money trying to cut off barstock with carbide. HSS cut off tools are too easy to resharpen and handle the slow surface speed of the center of the bar. You must go a slower speed but you can set it up and cut part after part after part when it is done right. Maybe today the carbide has improved but I have not seen the improvement. In some applications the carbide is fine ie (tubing - parts where the cut off is into a hole in the center of the bar). I have tried a lot of carbide cut off tools and did not like any for cutting solid barstock. thanks Stuart
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:05 AM, John Alexander Stewart <[email protected] > wrote: > Tom; on my larger manual lathes, HSS tooling, I'd expect a chip load about > 1/10 of what you are doing, and a speed about 1/5 to 1/10 of what you were > trying. > > Mind you, maybe I'm a "chicken", and I don't have Carbide cutoff > experience, so don't take the above as gospel. > > JohnS. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. > GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that > you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. > Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. > https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
