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Cutter Grinder Cost


cincy k
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We're a small facility focused on complex part production. What would you figured we'd spend to bring cutter production in house? Something like an MX machine from Anca I'd imagine. It seems we could facilitate healthy cycle time savings if we could produce specialty cutters quickly and make geometry adjustments as needed. Thoughts?

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24 minutes ago, htm01 said:

we had an old guy that could grind anything , he was a mathematical genius

Nevermind that, though it counts...he also most likely knew WHY certain reliefs and angles we necessary and how things could help or hurt based on the use of the tool.

 

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3 minutes ago, JParis said:

Nevermind that, though it counts...he also most likely knew WHY certain reliefs and angles we necessary and how things could help or hurt based on the use of the tool.

 

that he did.

we had two lista cabinets filled with custom thread form tools for bottle molds along with all kinds of form tools and  broaches

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21 minutes ago, JParis said:

Nevermind that, though it counts...he also most likely knew WHY certain reliefs and angles we necessary and how things could help or hurt based on the use of the tool.

 

On 12/14/2019 at 5:02 PM, cincy k said:

Thoughts?

I am with JP here. The real challenge  (well  it certainly would be out here in PNW) would be to staff it and keep it running enough to justify the cost.

Like any specialized / complex  machining task there is just nothing like the daily honing of skills.

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We bought a Shutte wu-405 couple years ago and it hasn't had a break since,   ( the cost of having customs made outside outweighs the cost of the machine )

and also picked up a Walter HMC 400 that we just plugged in, haven't seen it spin yet.  (these were both low hour used buys at auction that we couldn't pass up)

Most of our customs are Ø.250-Ø1.00"   Its nice to be able to make a Ø1.00 x 12" long EM with .300 of flute for them deep hard spots.

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Met with Schutte. Their software seems relatively straight forward though I'd still like to do a deeper dive with it. My main concern is how to drive the machine to get the geometry we want and the support to get up to speed having not ground told in the past.  Are their any independent CAM type software out there? Independent folks for start up support?

Those that have bought used machines, was the software bought along with the machine?

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