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I was hogging out a piece of aluminum using a 17mm end mill and running at the fastest speed my machine would go. Don't ask me how fast cuz I don't know.
Every time I heard the bit chatter a little, I would run the mill chuck up a smidge. That kept the chatter down to nothing.
This wasn't the first time I used this method for hogging out metal on this machine so I wasn't nervous. Heck, I was even using the vacuum while I was making each pass on power feed.
I wasn't vacuuming when this happened. It gave no warning other than a microsecond of chatter and then, well, you can see what happened.
Do you think super glue can fix it?
My original idea, to save time, was to drill through the block to make turning points and then use the bandsaw to cut the bulk of the metal away.
I'm hogging out a 1.75 X 1.75 X 2.25 chunk. It's a lot of milling on a cheap Chinese combo.
I think I'll go back to the bandsaw idea.
Luckily I have another milling chuck. A little more robust than this one.
Also, there were no cats harmed in the making of this mistake.
Every time I heard the bit chatter a little, I would run the mill chuck up a smidge. That kept the chatter down to nothing.
This wasn't the first time I used this method for hogging out metal on this machine so I wasn't nervous. Heck, I was even using the vacuum while I was making each pass on power feed.
I wasn't vacuuming when this happened. It gave no warning other than a microsecond of chatter and then, well, you can see what happened.
Do you think super glue can fix it?
My original idea, to save time, was to drill through the block to make turning points and then use the bandsaw to cut the bulk of the metal away.
I'm hogging out a 1.75 X 1.75 X 2.25 chunk. It's a lot of milling on a cheap Chinese combo.
I think I'll go back to the bandsaw idea.
Luckily I have another milling chuck. A little more robust than this one.
Also, there were no cats harmed in the making of this mistake.