Ceramic Milling Tips

Top 7 tips on machining inconel hastelloy monel and other nickel alloys.

Ceramic milling tips.

Hard turning and milling turning is an almost ideal operation for ceramics. Climb milling prevents material being pulled off the edge of the macor. For some shops the flexibility of inserted carbide cutting tools might be too much of a good thing. Machine rigidity fixture rigidity and tooling rigidity.

Cbn is brazed onto a cemented carbide carrier to form an insert. 23 to 35 sfpm 1 to 1 4 meters per minute. The ceramic binder adds wear resistance to the cbn which is otherwise prone to chemical wear. Milling macor speeds and feeds.

Ceramic inserts cutter for roughing hrsa ceramic milling typically runs at 20 to 30 times the speed of carbide although at lower feed rates 0 1 mm z 0 0039 in z which results in high productivity gains. Typical head speeds are 1000 1500 rpm with a chip load of 0 05mm per tooth. These grades may have a metallic binder to improve their toughness. Under the spk brand ceramtec offers a unique program in terms of scope diversity and performance of indexable inserts made of ceramic cutting materials polycrystalline cubic boron nitrides cbn and cermets for turning grooving milling and boring in a wide variety of industrial applications.

Due to intermittent cutting it is a much cooler operation than turning. Depths of cut are as for turning. We still run older mitsui seiki horizontal mills and older mori seiki lathes because they are so rigid. Ensure the inside of the machine is free from any combustible materials.

Ceramic insert cutters like the one in this application run 8 to 10 times faster than carbide. Carbide is safe and easy to use says steven howard engineering and marketing manager for ntk cutting tools. In general it is a continuous machining process that allows a single insert to be engaged in the cut for relatively long periods of time. Maybe that s 3 but i m going to call it one.

This is an excellent vehicle to generate the high temperatures that make ceramic inserts perform optimally. Do not use open type machines the chips generated during machining are at extremely high temperatures. Always use water cooling when grinding macor. If you can t machine the original ceramic parts which may take ages and simply wear out grinding tips is it possible to replace the original ceramic inserts with another ceramic that can be machined.

Another group of grades are the high content cbn grades with 85 to almost 100 cbn.