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Originally posted by Fixittt
utabintarbo
This may sound like a smart a$$ answer, but I beleive that you already know. If you have ever milled copper, or like material you know that very thin walls + high RPM endmills= broken parts
But there are many different ways to achevie the desired wall thickness. Granted you dont want them to be paper thin. But if your wanting to make very thin walls, that is going to increase the machining time alot. You will have to make alot of really shallow passes so you dont break the wall.
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Well, I have never had the
pleasure of milling copper
. Just aluminum, steel, graphite, and wax. My general tendency is towards safety (lot of "lights-out" milling in my past) where I would take small bites faster rather than have something break.
I have made some pretty thin walls before in the materials I have machined, I'm just looking for a
practical minimum wall thickness I can reasonably expect to achieve in copper.
Any ideas on that?
Bob