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BillGEGHV
in reply to: seth.madore

Im not using engrave, here is a screenshot as you can see it's milled pocket geometry and the surface its booleaned into is very steep. 

 

Now here is another piece of the puzzle and 2nd question.  In my prototype mold, I cut this with a 1/16 ball end mill but because the cutter has to go so deep there needed to be a lot of stick out on the tool and it's just not practical to machine 40 molds like this. To much room for error and the holder nut hits the side wall.  I even bought a long-reach ER 11 and thought that was the ticket BUT it still hits one of the side walls.  

 

SO IF i could find a nice ridged long shank tapered tool from say 3/16 shank to a 1/16 ball with very little DOC i think i would resolve all these issues with just having the right cutter. Ive looked at Harvey and Im trying not to spend 150.00 on a single cutter and get into extremely specialized tooling if I can help it.  Im on a Tormach 1100M.    

 

Can you offer any input on other tooling sources for what I describe? A 2-inch overall tool is what I need. 

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