On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:19:25 -0400, "Robin S."
wrote:


"Gunner" wrote in message
.. .

Im doing it now...on a shaper..simply because it was killing my
endmills


Have you tried a indexable facemill? I never use an endmill for squaring
blocks - only facemills. With hardened stuff, I find carbide works well as
long as you slow it down. You're good if you've got one that takes cheap
inserts.

Actually..no..I dont have such a facemill. I havent been able to
scrounge up one and a supply of inserts. A fair and dimenishing
number of carbide facemills that are cemented..and no way to resharpen
them. And with material like this...I dont want to use any more up.

I was thinking along the lines of Karl with the disc grinder, but .09" is a
lot of material and it's very labour intensive to hog material for a long
time.

Regards,

Robin

Yup. Thanks for the advise

Gunner




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