Tom Senior depth of cut

[larry PhelanParticipant @larryphelan54019]

Looks to be a fairly sturdy machine,should be no need to bolt it to the floor,never mind wheeling it around.

Mills that size are not wheelbarrows,they like to be left alone.

My LUX mill is bolted to a box tubing frame just sitting on the floor [ I dont like drilling floors unless I have to ] and I dont have any bother with it dancing around. I think perhaps blunt cutters/wrong feed rate might be the real problem.

As an aside,I wonder how does the LUX compare to the Tom Senior,or would that be considered an insult?

The LUX was all I could afford at the time and there is very little secondhand stuff over this way. Still,it does the job !

[Piero FranchiParticipant @pierofranchi37209]

Having only spent no more than 15 minuets on the mill today

I can say, a lot of my problems were due to a dull cutter

 

I did the above cut, 10mm new cutter (Chinese to be honest) 3mm depth of cut and the cutter was pushing the work away not pulling its self into the work (which was what I was doing when I had the trouble)

 

The Tom senior cut it like butter

 

So To conclude, I was using a old cutter and the direction of feed was causing the cutter to pull the work into its self (the cutter was turning clockwise, and I was feeding the work from the left of the cutter to wards the cutter)

 

 

an other hands up for forums and helpfull people

Edited By Piero Franchi on 11/11/2017 17:51:11

Edited By Piero Franchi on 11/11/2017 17:53:05

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Are you climb milling?

Perhaps you did not understand this question from my earlier post. Small mills are not best suited to climb milling. The heavyweights can cope with that cutting direction and cutters should last longer (as in doing more useful work), but we tend to only climb mill (on hobby type mills) when cutting tiny slither to make the finish as good as possible.

Glad you have had some success. Now consult the feeds and speeds info for other cutters and material combinations.  Basically the same whether milling or turning. But err on the conservative side as these values are often quoted for production work where the tool (HSS) might be expected to last for an hour at the maximum depths, feeds and speeds.

Remember, too, that even though a cutter should last some time (more at conservative speeds and feeds) they can be rendered useless in just a few seconds of rubbing, overheating or plain mechanical abuse.

 

Edited By not done it yet on 11/11/2017 18:12:12

[sean logieParticipant @seanlogie69385]

We all learn from .mistakes easy done …

Sean

[Piero FranchiParticipant @pierofranchi37209]

tbh I am enjoying learning

thanks for every ones help

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