4 flute solid carbide flat end mill
Flat Carbide End Mill offered allows perfect execution of the work and feature centre cutting straight flutes. With these end mills suitable for slot and form milling applications, these tools and construction material are specially designed for HSC and made available with 2/4 fluted center cutting, CNC grinding and helix angle of 30 degrees. These can be offered with different cutting & shank diameters and feature different flute and overall lengths.
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Features:
Allows perfect execution of the work
Featuring centre cutting straight flutes
These Ball nose end mills are suitable for slot and form milling applications
Tools and construction material specially designed for HSC
Can be offered with different cutting & shank diameters
Also featuring different flute lengths and overall lengths
Applications:
For milling of cast iron
Malleable cast iron
Steel & steel casting
Heat resisting steel
Plastics in design & profile manufacturing
Cutting tools come in a range of sizes, materials, and geometry types.
It is generally more efficient to use a combination of different toolpaths and tools to achieve a detailed model rather than assuming that a small tool with a smaller stepover is the only way. Often, a larger tool can achieve better finish results.
In end milling, the cutter generally rotates on an axis vertical to the workpiece. Cutting teeth are located on both the end face of the cutter and the periphery of the cutter body.
A ball nose end mill, also known as a spherical end mill or ball end mill, has a semisphere at the tool end. Ball nose end mills are used on workpieces with complex surfaces.
Choosing flat end mill vs. a ball end mill will determine the characteristics of the tooling marks (or lack thereof) on your model. Most jobs will benefit from strategic use of multiple size and shape tools for milling different features. End Mills are often used for roughing and 2D cutting and V-Bit and Ball Nose cutters are often used for finishing operations.
End geometry
There are up-cut, down-cut, compression cut end mills with varying numbers of flutes. End mills are intended to cut horizontally.
Up-cut, down-cut and compression cut determine the way the chips (cut material) are ejected and the smoothness of the surface. With an up-cut end mill, the chips will be ejected upward and the bottom of the material will be smooth. The down-cut end mill is the reverse by puching the chips downward and the top of the material is smooth. The compression end mill creates a smooth surface on top and bottom, which is perfect for pre-laminated woods.
End mills come in a variety of shapes. The most common are flat end mills and ball end mills. Flat end mills will cut flat areas with no scallops. However, they leave a terrace-like scallop on non-flat surfaces. Ball end mills will leave smaller scallops for the same stepover value on sloped surfaces, but they will also leave scallops on flat areas.
Models can be tooled with a combination of flat and ball end mills. If only one tool will be used for all surfaces a ball end geometry will give a more consistent overall feel and smooth result.
Flat end mills can be Center Cutting and Non Center Cutting: Center cutting square endmills are essential for plunge milling. Non-center cutting mills are used only for side milling.
Larger tools cut more cleanly, have larger clearance, and stay sharp longer. The velocity of the cutting edge on a larger tool is higher for the same spindle speed.
Stepover
Stepover is the distance the tool moves over between subsequent passes.
The stepover value (along with tool size) will determine whether the model has a smooth finish, or tooling marks are visible. It will also directly impact cutting time. Models with a smaller stepover take longer to cut.
Stepdown
The length of the cutting area within the tool determines how deep the material can be cut in one operation –this is called the maximum stepdown. This stepdown value will only be used to its maximum when the material that is being cut is soft; for harder materials a smaller value is often required, setting the toolpaths to mill away layers of materials in separate passes.
Flute geometry
While the number, direction and type of flutes that a cutting tool has can vary widely, the tools most commonly used have two flutes and are up-cut spirals.
Some projects may benefit from other types of flute geometry. Contour cutting MDF or plywood sheets would benefit from down-cut spirals as the tool would push the material against the CNC machine table as it cuts rather than lift it.
Single Flute – Allows for larger chiploads in softer materials
Double Flute – Allows for better part finish in harder materials
Multiple Flutes – Allows for an even better part finish in harder materials
Examples of applications using end mills:
Capillary Stainless Steel Tubes Seamless Stainless Tubes & Pipes
Welded Stainless Tubes & Pipes Nickel Alloy Tubes & Pipes
EN10305-1/4 Seamless Steel Tubes EN10305-2/3 Welded Precision Tubes
ISO8535-1 Fuel Injection Tubes Single/Double Wall Bundy Tubes
Seamless Honed/SRB Tubes & Pipes A210/A179 Boiler & Pressure Tubes