Routing Tool For Quality Plastic Finish (i.e Minimal Burrs)

[Lee Roberts]

Yes, that exactly.

The boxes come to us precut, but to fit our connector we need to shave off another 2mm.

Thanks

Ok, I’m wondering if you may get a better result sweeping from outside the box to inside and then from inside to outside.

At the moment it looks as though the material is being pushed away from the cutter before it gets a chance to cut it and so leaving that flap of a burr along the length of the cut. If you sweep left to right, right to left across the length of the cut, it may not produce the burr along the length but generate a burr on the proceeding material, but that won’t matter because the next cut will remove that material anyway, possibly leaving you with only a flap of a burr at the start and finish of the cut.

Granted each cut may take a little longer to do but, it may just mean a slightly snugger fit for the connector and if it is to snug that the connector doesn’t quite “fit” right, just extend the length of the cut to compensate the extra burrs at each end, hopefully leaving no requirement to de burr.

I’m assuming that this is being done via cnc of course and so you would basically need to change the tool paths...Just a thought you may like to try before buying a new cutter.

.Me