Milling slots on the Bridgeport

[@KeithFenner]

There are many ways to mill slots in plate, you gotter done! Thanks for the plug and watching my videos. I'm glad to see a welder / fabricator, which I'm presuming, expanding interest into machining. Becoming diversified with most relating trades to a job shop, will keep you in work during a slow or depression time period, that is what I owe much of my success in keeping Turn Wright Machine Works going, since 1994. ;{)-----

[@lukesylvester2619]

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[@rogerb08]

Tip: Whenever you setup your datums with the edge finder , don't have the quill extended. Loses a couple of thou hear and there

[@tjs_welding_and_fabrication]

Splunk. I am referring to a standard end mill which usually do not have center cutting capabilities. Thus making plunge cuts with those non center cutting will cause wobble. However center cutting end mill will plunge. I used a mill drill cutter but really did not like the way it did a plunge cut either.

[@jamesrawlings8493]

Cutting oil in a Keith Fenner style can. Good person to learn from.

[@spelunkerd]

I wish I had a milling machine to do this kind of work. You mentioned the bit wobbles a little, and then the wobble disappears. How does it disappear? Is it making contact with the edge of the metal and that contact smooths out the wobble?

[@hugochavez4150]

how much would it cost to get a slot like that?i need 2 slots on a go kart rim bracket i took off the ones from a wheel chair.but my go kart axle its flat to round.so my tire wheel rim needs to be sloted.

[@tjs_welding_and_fabrication]

Send me an email. You can find it in the about me section

[@richardphillips8652]

Thanks

[@geremdu85]

il fait quoi avec sa pige??? tu regle une fois et c est bon!!

[@gordonagent7037]

Hi, really enjoyed the video, well explained and illustrated. This is a newbie question, is a end mill and slot mill the same tool. I thought that the end mill was only to dress the end of work but then when I thought about it cutting a slot is very similiar except you are cutting material on more faces. I guess I thought that a slot mill was a bit like a hybrid drill/end mill in that you could plunge the drill through the plate and then move the table to cut the slot. The way you did this would be how I would do it. NSW, Australia

[@Convolutedtubules]

I am new to milling machines, but as far as I know, an S.D is commonly called S.E.M slotting end mill. A S.D will do what an E.M does, but an E.M will not plunge straight down like you can with a SEM (slotting end mill / slot drill). Although, as I understand it, you can cut downwards into a slot with a regular E.M. as long as you ramp at an angle into the slot.

[@hugochavez4150]

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[@glenndavis2762]

Less cutting fluid on that drill and more on that endmill :) Subscribed! Glenn