Hello
With the help of this forum I’ve got my Enco kneemill set up and have started making some parts. The next thing I’d like to try is a set of bench Vise jaws. To start I’ll likely make a set from aluminum and then I’ll go on to mild steel, perhaps others.
At the moment I do not have any surfacing tools and am shopping for a good general purpose start point, focusing on indexable end mills from Shars. I usually buy only from McMaster but things like this get very expensive over there and I’ve been happy with all my Shars purchases to date.
Things get confusing quickly with the setting angles (45, 75, 90) and insert types (SEHT, SPG, APKT, TPG (wiper). Milling machine tooling in general is overwhelming so I mostly take the approach of shopping for the project at hand, which in this case is plane vanilla surfacing with no shoulders, chamfers etc.
Any comment on following will be helpful. Price points are similar.
45 degree, 3 SEHT https://www.shars.com/2-45-degree-end-mill-r8-shank-seht-insert-2
75 degree, 3 SPG https://www.shars.com/r8-shank-2-carbide-indexable-face-mill
90 degree, 5 APKT https://www.shars.com/2-90-degree-r8-shank-indexable-end-mills-apkt-insert
90 degree, 3 TPG https://www.shars.com/3-4-shank-2-carbide-indexable-end-mill
With the help of this forum I’ve got my Enco kneemill set up and have started making some parts. The next thing I’d like to try is a set of bench Vise jaws. To start I’ll likely make a set from aluminum and then I’ll go on to mild steel, perhaps others.
At the moment I do not have any surfacing tools and am shopping for a good general purpose start point, focusing on indexable end mills from Shars. I usually buy only from McMaster but things like this get very expensive over there and I’ve been happy with all my Shars purchases to date.
Things get confusing quickly with the setting angles (45, 75, 90) and insert types (SEHT, SPG, APKT, TPG (wiper). Milling machine tooling in general is overwhelming so I mostly take the approach of shopping for the project at hand, which in this case is plane vanilla surfacing with no shoulders, chamfers etc.
Any comment on following will be helpful. Price points are similar.
45 degree, 3 SEHT https://www.shars.com/2-45-degree-end-mill-r8-shank-seht-insert-2
75 degree, 3 SPG https://www.shars.com/r8-shank-2-carbide-indexable-face-mill
90 degree, 5 APKT https://www.shars.com/2-90-degree-r8-shank-indexable-end-mills-apkt-insert
90 degree, 3 TPG https://www.shars.com/3-4-shank-2-carbide-indexable-end-mill