Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Using wood router on aluminum

JRR,

I need to take exception with some of what you have said. A properly
designed cnc router is designed to cut aluminum and other soft metals. You
should always wear eye protection when working around any cnc machine. When
cutting aluminum, don't try and make large cuts. When I am pocketing, I
only go down 1/10 of an an inch at a time. I run my machine at 10 to 15
inches per minute.

Router bits bit when they break usually don't go supersonic. They usually
just fall where they are.

Bob Campbell

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From: <JanRwl@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Using wood router on aluminum


> The use of any machine for a purpose for which it was NOT designed is
> tantamount to playing "Russian roulette" with a 5-shot revolver!
>
> HOWEVER! Using good-quality carbide "wood-working" bits, I use a
> "woodworking router" for chamfering aluminum often. Or, using a
> ball-bearing-tipped "flush-cutter", to match, say, a 1/8" alum.
cover-plate
> to a table-top (my "metalworking bench" is covered with a form-fitted
sheet
> of aluminum in this way).
>
> But use common sense! It is very dangerous, due to the speed involved.
Not
> just the danger of flying chips doing lasik surgery on your eyes, but a
bit
> breaking off and going supersonic as it bounces of each wall and ceiling
of
> your shop, several times, before it homes-in on your careless face! It
has
> happened! Be very, very careful using a power-tool for summin it was NOT
> made for! Perhaps better: DON'T!
>
> JRR, Troll
>
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