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final finishing of steel bed

on 2004-12-15 04:12:40 UTC
I have just finished doing the final pass of my egg-box style steel
bed plate. It is 730mm X 730mm in size and I have finished it with
a shell mill with carbide inserts (only two inserted so it acts like
a fly cutter). If the overlap between the passes is small a very
slight lip is seen, this I think is due to the head of the mill not
being spot on vertical. To avoid this I have made the step over
half the diameter of the shell mill. However the fact it is carbide
means that it doesn't really like taking off tiny amounts. I have
ended up with a flat bed but the machining marks are unusual to say
the least, you cannot feel them but you can see patches near the
overlaps.

I would like to polish out the machining marks on the bed either
manually or using the big mill it is still mounted to. I don't want
to mess up the flatness so I am looking for ideas of what to do.
Could I for example just use a largeish fine oil stone?

I should mention the bed is for my router so it is on topic I hope.

Cheers,

Graham

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Graham Stabler 2004-12-15 04:12:40 UTC final finishing of steel bed R Rogers 2004-12-15 06:55:40 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] final finishing of steel bed Jon Elson 2004-12-15 09:16:35 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] final finishing of steel bed turbulatordude 2004-12-15 09:25:40 UTC Re: final finishing of steel bed JanRwl@A... 2004-12-15 10:08:34 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] final finishing of steel bed R Rogers 2004-12-15 15:15:11 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: final finishing of steel bed Graham Stabler 2004-12-15 15:59:52 UTC Re: final finishing of steel bed JanRwl@A... 2004-12-15 17:24:18 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: final finishing of steel bed Richard Garnish 2004-12-15 18:58:53 UTC Re: final finishing of steel bed Graham Stabler 2004-12-16 03:07:14 UTC Re: final finishing of steel bed