Milling mild steel

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interesting convo chaps. :-) ive just watched a vid Jonathan's doing test cuts in aluminium on the second pass you can here what i class as pretty bad resonance of the cutter, that alone is mainly down to the rigidity and mass of the machine, now i to have use them blue coated cutters on jobs in the past, they are "OK" as chinese and korean cutters go but there are better out there but at a cost, personally for me using a router of any sort to cut steel is asking bit, especially when spindle plays a big role in the quality, and time it takes to machine a job in steel. i would convert a mill to cnc for use on steel any day and not rely on a cutter to be the saving grace. i can't see any router thats been made on this forum that could hold to a few microns. My machine at work does that but that way 6.5 ton.

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i would convert a mill to cnc for use on steel any day and not rely on a cutter to be the saving grace. i can't see any router thats been made on this forum that could hold to a few microns. My machine at work does that but that way 6.5 ton.

You Bloody trouble causer starting this back up again. . .Lol

I agree 100% Addy but that doesn't mean router can't cut steel like was suggested they just don't do it as good or quick. For the Odd time you need to cut mild steel with a router then provided it's of good strength it's possible and can get jobs done, Yes not High accuracy Jobs but still profiles etc then it works.

Many moons ago the Windows Guru's said controlling a CNC machine with Windows was imposible So Art fennerty proved them wrong. . . . . . Never say never.!!