Re: Wood Router clearing chips

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Ginger"
<ronginger@a...> wrote:
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> I have ground a single lip 1/16" dia tools and it cuts very well

at about 15

> in/min and .100" deep But it leaves the cut path tightly packed

with chips.

> It cant be cutting clean with all those old chips stuck there.
>

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> ron ginger

Since you ground your own cutter, my questions are, what's the
cutter geometry, and is it highly polished to allow the chips to
flow off it?

.100" is pretty deep for a .062" diameter cutter so the cutter
design is going to be a big factor.

At 15"/min and a 20,000 rpm spindle I calculate .00075" thick
chips. That's not much of a chip. Lots of thin chips equal more
volume than lesser amount of thick chips, maybe you need a a higher
feedrate?