Machining advice
Machining advice
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Hello, I am new to this forum. Does anyone know of a good online resource for machine tool advice. I am designing a component to be machined from aluminium but it will require some delicate features at considerable depth (up to 10 x diameter of cutter). I would like to find out what's reasonably achievable before I progress too far....
Any ideas?
Any ideas?





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Start off here and look at the links also at the bottom left, they may help:-
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desertfox
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I should of added, if you have manufacturing centre on site I would make a sketch and go and talk to someone either a machinist or a manufacturing engineer, failing that phone up a local machining company they are usually quite willing to help.
desertfox
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Talk to the people who will be fabricating it.
Here is a good article by Joe Osborne: Tips on Designing Cost Effective Machined Parts.
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Anyone posting information should see this post too:-
thread281-267076: Machining advice
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However, for your 10X depth, I'd want to speak to an actual machine shop.
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
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I imagine you are choosing aluminum over steel because of it's machinability. However, if you are willing to go to a steel and if this is a one-off or few-off, DMLS might be the way to go.
The costs seem to run about 2x-3x that of an SLA, but for something with alot of fine detail, it might be cheaper than machining.
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