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  1. #1
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    Default Chinese carbide small milling bits

    Do not know yet if I have been wise or not yet?
    The story.
    I been looking for small milling bits 2mm and 3mm. Not finding any on ebay at the time so I search further a field and end up sending a bunch of emails of the Chinese manufacturer of milling tools.
    I got back only one reply and after much emailing back and forth and I must say they did all the translation as my Chinese does not exist.
    I got 120 bits for $200 all up and it took less then a week from transfer of the money. It took four or five week too make each other understand what the order was.
    The bits look ok. Over the next few weeks I will run them through a range of materials and see how there perform.

    Russell
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    Cool Russell. Keep us posted. What are you going to use them for? Slotting?

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    19brendan81
    Originally it was for some small hardwood routing but could not get the wood router bits I wanted and the milling bits did the job.
    But yes I will be doing slotting and horizontal shaping in brass and aluminium in the coming week.
    Russell
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    Cool...I hope they work out for you...sounds like they will.

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    if they are good stick their contact data in the sticky thread

    Your favourite tooling supplier
    Last edited by eskimo; 9th Sep 2011 at 12:23 PM. Reason: put in wrong sticky...duh!

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    First test cut
    cut some alum today.
    3mm plate with 2mm end mill. a little bit of burring which you can wipe of with your finger easily.
    rpm 15000
    feed 500mm
    cut deep 1mm
    flood coolant
    Sounded like I could have pushed it harder if I wanted to.
    I will update when I have cut some other materials

    Russell
    vapourforge.com

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    Rusel, that was a good price you got on the carbide bits. Although there is a company in Sydney ultrakeet who sell 1 off carbide endmills and drill bits in small diameters and sub mm for just over 1 buck each. Some are resharpend (i.e. secondhand)

    UltraKeet Australia

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    Swarfmaker1
    That site has some good stuff I bookmark it. They have a very limited selection of bits but the ones there have are cheap

    Cut some brass to day with the same bit as before
    Facing operation 1mm deep with step of 1mm at 500mm 10000 rpm no problems also made 4.1mm holes 8mm deep at same setting again no problems

    Just realised I have not put up the web site
    www.prdjlp.com
    Only make small bits

    Russell
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