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Volumill and Helical: High Performance Machining of 1045 Steel

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Uploaded by on Apr 26, 2009

Watch VoluMill cutting 1045 steel with a Helical HSVR-C-R-40500-R-3 4-flute solid carbide .500 diameter endmill. 11,200 RPM, 313 IPM, ADOC .500, RDOC .125

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  • Hi SPUNKKK. VoluMill will help any machine perform up to its potential. The machining load is so low and so uniform that even low powered machines can cut very fast. Of course, the better your machine and the better your cutting tools, such as the Okuma machine and helical cutters you see in this video, the faster you can go. But you do not need to upgrade your machine tool in order to increase your productivity with VoluMill.

  • Good question! All machining environments are different, of course, but we seem to average about 3x to 4x increase in tool life running like this. In some cases we've done better (one shop went from about 4 tools per part to 4 parts per tool on a particularly large part) and cut cycle time by around 60% as I recall.

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  • Does this work on all machines, or do you need a big rigid spindle?

  • So fast, so high pitched, so awesome! very impressive, what is the expected tool life running like this?

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