Milling 1018 Steel Plate with End Mill - Tormach CNC

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Overview:
A 3/4" steel plate is cut to size and finished with two different end mills in the process of making an 8" chuck adaptor plate.

This video reviews a standard milling operation on low carbon steel. The task involves creating an 8" diameter circular plate from an 8.5" x 8.5" x 0.750" square plate.

Material: 1018 Steel
Cutter: Cobalt HSS rougher
1/2" 4 flute end mill
1/4" HSS 2 flute
Speed: 700 -1200 RPM
Feed: 1-4 IPM
Machine: Tormach PCNC 1100

Background:
Mild steel was used to make chuck adaptor plates. The process involved 3 operations using 1/2" roughing end mill. These were 1) cutting the circular shape from a rectangle, 2) squaring off a chamfer left behind by a face mill, and 3) finishing the outer diameter. Finally, we switch to a 1/4" end mill and put a precision cut on the pilot. Climb milling was used throughout.

Read more:
http://www.tormach.com/MfgDatabase/20105_Milling%201018_Steel.pdf

Key words:
Tormach, CNC, 1018, steel, mild steel, cobalt, HSS, high speed steel, edge milling, finishing operations, rotary table, pilot, end mill, rougher

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Tags:

• Tormach
• CNC
• 1018
• mild
• cobalt
• HSS
• high
• speed
• steel
• milling
• pilot
• rotary
• table
• rougher
• edge
• operations
• finishing

[riky22lou]

how much the torque u needed for this work, sir..?

seems stronger than the aluminum one