First tech challenge

[Dreyfus]

Can confirm, even a novice like me can cut aluminium on the LR

Achievement unlocked: metal milling

During my lunch break I decided to make an attempt at milling aluminium. Toroidal milling tool path in estlcam - come]plate guess on spindle speed (6) feed rate (100mm/s) and DoC (6) After a couple of false starts the last attempt looks pretty decent for a 6 minute job [IMG_8732] [IMG_8733] I reduced the step over from 10% to 5% that seemed to help clear the chips - in the initial attempts the slots were filling. Regardless the mess was eugh [IMG_8730] I’ve more learning to to but it gi…