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High Speed Cutting of Al.Alloys

High Speed Cutting of Al.Alloys

High Speed Cutting of Al.Alloys

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We are machining lot of AA2014 & 2024 Aluminium Alloys in our CNC mills - but at spindle speeds less than 5000RPM and with flood coolant. We are planning to procure a high spped spindle attachment for speeding up production. Has anybody machined these alloys using high speed cutting? If so at what RPMs? Should one use dry machining or wet machining?

RE: High Speed Cutting of Al.Alloys

Wery carefully. You need HSC speed (rpm) and you need HSC feed and good acceleration. The complete is HSC machining.
Bigger RPM you can use for small dia of tools. Good Luck Libor PĂ­rko

RE: High Speed Cutting of Al.Alloys

RE: High Speed Cutting of Al.Alloys

If you have trouble with low revs that result in low cutting speeds,try if possible to use larger diameters of cutters.With the adding of a high speed spindle you dont solve the problem really,if your machine is not able to accelerate and diccelerate and run at the programmed feed rates you could have some  or a lot of problems.If you run high  revs up to say 30-40,000 revs/min but cant increase the feed rate that suits the cutter geometrie being used you could have some big problems with the average chip thickness.High revs and low feed speeds will result in a lot of heat on the cutting edge and this could result in the aluminium sticking to or welding to the cutting edge.Best results with coolant are with mist cooling.Kind regards,Speak with Seco Tools,

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