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Bill (Login PlanoBill)
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Posted Jul 3, 2009 3:45 PM
Titanium be funny poop...when fly cutting .100 thou deep with the right speed and feed and the spindle all the way up you can cut four inches wide and eight inches long for four passes without sharpening the cemented carbide tool.
Air blows the chip off the end of the tool and therefore the chip is gone before the tool cuts again...Titanium loads up quickly without coolant and coolant works not well on manual machines 
I cannot recommend purchase of the commercial product because OSHA regulates both input and output...get the specs and build your own me says...after years of use a gunk builds up inside and you will need to be able to disassemble and clean.
Yes (for Dave) there are many other uses and some are efficient enough if you build your own stuff...but then again, swamp coolers are efficient and so is the:
![[linked image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/dobrilla/Pics/prototype.jpg)
...don't see them around much any more
If you just want ideas so you can do your own stuff...I highly recommend a free issue of:
http://www.farmshow.com/
luv, |
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