How to Mill a Part That is Too Thin to Mill

[TomG]

(07-22-2013, 12:57 PM)DaveH Wrote: Tom,
I have never seen that before,
Like Ed, I don't climb mill on my machine - unless it is just a couple of thou.

Sorry Tom but to climb mill on small bench type milling machines like Ed's and the one I have is going to end in tears and a disaster.

DaveH

There is always a way.

You could skip the sawing step and mill the whole thing, leaving a few thousandths for a finish climb cut. You could also try roughing it out by conventional milling and then finish by climbing the last few thousandths. If you noticed in the video, after the first cut I made I returned to the start without retracting the cutter. It was conventional milling then and it didn't seem to lift the part.

Tom