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Making a small Fly Cutter for inserts

Published on Fri, Feb 18th 2022 Science & Technology Rectangular HD

New machines require new tools. A few weeks ago I got a proxxon mini mill donated from a viewer. For this machine I needed a small fly cutter for the next project I'm working on.
I designed the fly cutter to work with dcmt turning inserts which I use normally on the lathe. Out of a blank of steel I machined the cutter with the insert seat and added a big chamfer in the end for the optic. For this I used the small rotary table which came with the milling machine.
The fly cutter works extremely well and runs super quiet and smooth.

Great thanks goes to the tool supplier HOGETEX who was so kind to donate me a proper machining vise for the mill. It is a 75mm precision machine vise.
HOGETEX: https://www.hogetex.de/


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00:00 Intro
00:11 Turning the blank
01:33 New milling machine vise from HOGETEX
02:27 Milling the insert seat
03:40 Engraving tool for cutting the angle
06:21 Mounting the 4 jaw chuck to the rotary table
07:30 Machining the large chamfer
09:00 Finishing
10:57 First test cuts

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