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  1. #11
    Great job. As you say the price of cutter is not worth calculating in the price of the pieces.

    One question: How do you fix that brass/copper?/ to the plate?
    project 1 , 2, Dust Shoe ...

  2. #12
    Ta Dean,
    I have ordered some to try.

    Rob

  3. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by Boyan Silyavski View Post
    Great job. As you say the price of cutter is not worth calculating in the price of the pieces.

    One question: How do you fix that brass/copper?/ to the plate?
    They are pressed into the holes mate I made the holes .1 under size, carbons pretty soft so needed a tighter fit.
    If it was alloy 0.02 would be enough.

    Quote Originally Posted by cropwell View Post
    Ta Dean,
    I have ordered some to try.

    Rob
    Don't waste your time trying any others mate I got some coated ones of the same style and not worth the extra money, I've only tried them on carbon, plastic and MDF.



    1 cutter did all this that's all the holes and profiling but finished the profile with an end mill, I have another program that does 20 parts per plate just the smaller rectangle parts but the cutter was worn at the tip and makes the edge tapper.
    Last edited by Dean jeffery; 21-08-2016 at 04:13 PM.

  4. #14
    just bought 10 of the cutters, soon will have to cut some composite panels- g10, micarta.
    project 1 , 2, Dust Shoe ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dean jeffery View Post
    Sure Clive

    eBay item number 221965675192 don't let the Chinese put you off they came in around 6-8 days, and I'd bought 1 cutter from the UK and snapped in 55 seconds using the same speeds and feeds.
    Thanks for sharing
    ..Clive
    The more you know, The better you know, How little you know

  6. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by Clive S View Post
    Thanks for sharing
    +1

    I've tended to use diamond burrs, the type you find in rotary tool sets, for cutting carbon. Even less than 55p each! Here's a recent example:

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    And a not so recent (T-5 years) example (probably already posted somewhere on this site):

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    I'm still using that keyring - amazed that I've not lost it yet. I'll splash out on the cutters suggested here for the next part and compare...
    Old router build log here. New router build log here. Lathe build log here.
    Electric motorbike project here.

  7. #17
    Deffo splash out Jonathan that carbon looks really chewed up :(

    This ones not been deburred or anything yet, but as said just a quick rub round the edge with wet and dry and it's burr free :)

    Last edited by Dean jeffery; 21-08-2016 at 07:29 PM.

  8. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by Dean jeffery View Post
    Deffo splash out Jonathan that carbon looks really chewed up :(
    It's just the edges, which as you've noted, clean up well with sanding. I agree it's not ideal.

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    Still, for some things the finish is a little hard to discern in when the part is in use ;)

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    Old router build log here. New router build log here. Lathe build log here.
    Electric motorbike project here.

  9. #19
    Well I'm sure you'll see a big improvement with the corn cutters mate, but minimal clean up for me is a big deal and only a few need clean up the first few parts come off needing nothing but a wash.

    But when selling parts if they don't look 100% spot on then and rightly so people complain.

  10. #20
    Good post! Thanks...

    how did you hold the carbon sheet? Screw and glue?

    cheers, Billy

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