Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Fly cutter on Sherline.

I've got the new catalog.
Yes, it looks like they are using a fly cutter mounted in the mill head.
Yes they are cutting a round bar mounted between lathe centers!
Using this set up you could make a polygonal (not necessarily square) bar
from a round.
You could also use it to cut gears (as mentioned) or even keyways. this
primarily would depend on the flycutting tools contour. You could also use
this set up to cut a radial notch in the bar.

Smoke

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From: e.heritage@... <e.heritage@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Fly cutter on Sherline.

>Hello group,
>
> I recieved a catalog from Micro Mark today. I order this about five

days or so ago and it's come all the way from America, which makes me laugh
when I took it to be a rather cheapo company looking at what they sell. I've
order supposidly 'free' catalog with 'free' postage from a lot of massive
companies for them to NEVER arrive! And when they boast about them being
free only for them to not send you the thing it gives a very bad impression
of them as a whole. Thinking about that I have been recieving about four or
five radom faxes recently from 'The new bible', 'Win a playstation'.... etc

>
> Anyway, the point of the mail. In there catalog they have a picture of

the Sherline mill with the indexing table addon. But in the jaw of the mill
is a sort of cylinderical clamp with a lathe tool in it. The table is not
rotating, it's not blurred, but the bar clamped in it appears to have been
turned down by the lathe tool. Do these table rotate fast enough to do this?
On the accesories page I found something that looks very similar to the tool
in the jaw of the mill called a Fly Cutter. If I've got this mixed up would
there be anyway to clamp something into the mills jaw and then use a tool on
the bed to turn it a bar?

>
>Thanks,
>
>John
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