On 02/03/2017 11:23 AM, Bengt Sjölund wrote: > Take a moment and think again ;) It is a single row tool. > /Bengt > > > Den 2017-02-03 kl. 18:05, skrev Jon Elson: >> tool into a chunk of material at the thread pitch feedrate. > OK, you drill it down the center of the hole at a slow feed, and the thread milling teeth open the diameter up quite a bit more than the shank diameter. Then, you deflect to the side and thread mill coming back up. I've never run into a tool of this type before. I've used single-row thread mills, and use combo drill-taps a lot. Always something new!
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