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Robodrill anyone?

MIKE_B

By MIKE_B,
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Hi all

 

I have a fanuc robodrill here and just got a job that I need to pocket away a good amount of material. It is 6061 alum. and the largest tool dia I am going with is a 1/2 EM. Anyone not familiar with the machine it is limited in horsepower but it can move pretty quick. Maximum rpm is 15000. I am just searching for some tool recommendations, depth of cut and speeds and feeds. I have cut a few jobs at 12000 and 120ipm with a depth of .125 with standard carbide but curious what else is out there that I can ripp a little faster.. biggrin.gif

 

 

edit:max depth of pocket is 1.125

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Mike

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Call Eric at Tesco Technologies he can tell you exactly what is possible in moments 1-877-908-3726. I just returned from a shop that has some robodrills and Mikron HSM machines and he was supplying all their Al tooling. 12mm CEM 36,000RPM 1200IPM.

 

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You can certainly push the endmill every bit as hard as that machine is going to want to run. Look at a solid carbide rougher to take out the bulk of your stock and run as much axial DOC at the machine'll do without bogging the spindle...

 

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I know for a fact that if you get a 128MB CF Card, you won;t have any compatability issues. If you go larger than 256MB, there have been some issues. Not for everyone, but for some. 128MB is the solid bet and is what I use and have had ZERO issues with.

 

Besides the CF Card, you'll need a CF Adapter for a PCMCIA slot.

 

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mold100 Newbie

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Data Flutes work very very well, although having much better results in the past few months with garr alumistars 1/2 and if you really want to move some alum with a 1/2 incher, duramill serated 3 flute, just did a pocket using truemill 2d at 1.240 Full loc at 9000 rpms 320ipm with .23 step over took 6 minutes to do a 12.875 by 8.75 pocket in M1 Cast Alum.

 

Oh in our FADAL Tu smile.gif

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