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Switched to climb milling after a bad afternoon at a shop in Akron...
I was running a part for a repeat client last Tuesday over at Midwest Precision in Akron, and my finish kept chattering like crazy on the final pass. The foreman walked over, watched for a minute, then told me to try climb milling instead of conventional... I thought he was nuts because I'd always done it the other way on aluminum. But after I switched, the surface came out glass-smooth and I trimmed almost 30 seconds off the cycle time. Has anyone else had a shop mentor change your whole approach like that?
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kelly_miller8023d ago
Nothing worse than fighting chatter all day, glad the foreman steered you right on that one. Sounds like he saved you a ton of headache and cycle time too.
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the_morgan23d ago
You mentioned cycle time and I was wondering how much of a difference you actually saw after changing speeds and feeds versus just messing with the tool path? I always feel like I'm guessing on that balance and the foreman just knew what would work. Did he have a rule of thumb for when to back off the rpm versus when to change the feed rate?
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