The job has no visible marking out and that hole is way too smooth to have been done by hand. My guess is that's a roughing cut at (what i would do) ~0.3mm less than the finish diameter, followed by a finishing pass, slow the feed down, up the RPM, some coolant to keep the cutter lubed up and the cutter/material cool (also improves the finish 10 fold on aluminium) climb milling to achieve the best finish.
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Yeah sorry Jay! Top work.
I was running the Y axis and John was running the X axis. we where cutting a .5mm. It was a climbing cut so far and the 1st cut we have made so far- it feels good at this point I may not do a finishing pass or I may break out the sand paper or bead blast it for a primo finish
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Interesting. I did notice that the hole was slightly eccentric to the slot, but i just figured you were using a different centre. That's very neat if you were doing it by hand i must say. I probably would have set it up in a 4 jaw chuck on the lathe and bored it out if that is the case.![]()
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Looks good Jay! What grade is that out of curiousity? I see "65" on it so i'm guessing it's hardened to T651?
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