A Flycutter Project

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“No, it’s not for cutting up flies, it’s for skimming metal up to say 50mm wide.

This was also designed to screw straight onto my Unimat 3 mill spindle, so again, the rear end was drilled and tapped M14x1 to suit. Make any changes to thread size, to suit your mini mill.

Made of 30mm brt ms x 40mm long, it consists of only three parts, the body and three M6x10 grub screws – couldn’t be simpler. Just add your cutting tool, up to 8mm sq. shank.

Clamping is via two grub screws, and a jacking screw is positioned inside the slot to adjust the angle of the cutting tool.

To be honest, I have not had a lot of success with this cutter, I don’t think my mini mill is strong enough, or I have got something else wrong.

Attached are a couple of pictures, and a pdf drawing. Coming up next is a scissor action knurling tool, and there’s more after that, so stay tuned, the best is yet to come.”

 

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