Nice. I see you do pay attention to chipload.
"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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CW (in ) said:

| I do maple on a Matsuura VMC on a regular basis (some kind of
| helicopter part). Generally run no faster than 3000 rpm to prevent
| burn marks. The largest cutter I use is a 1.25 inch 6 flute. Run
| that one at about 2000. Spindle speed is of little importance. Feed
| rate is everything. Never having been around a CNC router, I don't
| have any idea what kind of feed rates you guys run. Can't imagine
| it would be fast enough to have a reasonably heavy chip load.

I feed 1/4" 3-flute bits at 90 inch/min and 14000 RPM in rock maple.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
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