[simpits-tech] Weekly(?) project update!

[David C. Allen]

At 06:01 AM 3/19/2013 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, David C. Allen wrote:
>
> > At 02:28 PM 3/18/2013 -0700, you wrote:
> >> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, David C. Allen wrote:
> >>
> >>> At 02:01 PM 3/18/2013 -0700, you wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Sean Galbraith wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Well, Visual Mill has a "Tapping" tab, I don't have the right 
> tools, but
> >>>>> I assume it can cut a thread.....
> >>>>>
> >>>> That might be for a lathe operation though.  I'm trying to do 
> this with a
> >>>> standard x/y machine.  (I know f*ck all about cutting threads using a
> >>>> machine of any stripe. :(  )
> >>>
> >>> There is a process called "Thread Milling" that uses a cutter to form
> >>> threads using a milling machine. I can do both internal and
> >> external threads
> >>
> >> That's what I suspected.  Where can I find the cutter for this?
> >
> > 
> http://www.kometgroup.com/en/tools-navigation/tools/threading/thread-milling-cutters.html
> >
> > 
> http://www.harveytool.com/prod/Thread-Milling-Cutters/Other-Specialty-Profiles/Browse-Specialty-Carbide-Cutting-Tools---End-Mills_169/Thread-Milling-Cutters---Single-Form_157.aspx
> >
> > http://www.iscar.com/Ecat/products.asp?app=120&mapp=th&GFSTYP=m&lang=EN
> >
> > http://www.advent-threadmill.com/index.html
> >
>*head siezes over prices*

eBay?

>Well, so much for THAT idea...

I have indexable cutters for the lathe

David
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