# CNC Machining a billet compressor wheel
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [February 24, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076 "2011-02-24T06:32:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@AMD\_IS\_THE\_BEST](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AMD_IS_THE_BEST)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/1 "2011-02-24T06:32:32Z")
Sick! Sorry if it’s a repost.
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### Author:  [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/2 "2011-02-24T07:09:55Z")
thats amazing
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### Author:  [@ReDevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ReDevil)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/3 "2011-02-24T11:23:37Z")
So cool.
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### Author:  [@GermanPSI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GermanPSI)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/4 "2011-02-24T11:52:08Z")
SO sick
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/5 "2011-02-24T17:43:52Z")
CNC is one of my favorite industrial processes. i LOVE how stainless and aluminum looks after it’s been cut like that. the surface comes out so awesome, even if its not polished out.
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### Author:  [@94Gt5.0](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94Gt5.0)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/6 "2011-02-24T17:56:26Z")
Such a cool process, can definately see where the pricetag come from!!
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/7 "2011-02-24T17:59:16Z")
haha, yea. 25+hrs of machine time kind of runs that tag up just a little, bit. i’ve seen a custom rim cut out in that much time.
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### Author:  [@DUKE\_LADUKE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DUKE_LADUKE)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/8 "2011-02-24T19:21:03Z")
thats sick !
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### Author:  [@Wayne64SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wayne64SS)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/9 "2011-02-24T19:30:49Z")
HOLY SHIT. Good post man.
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### Author:  [@big\_red](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/big_red)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/10 "2011-02-24T21:07:44Z")
siiick. good post
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/11 "2011-02-24T21:38:11Z")
Holy fucking feed in the beginning. That’s why I love cutting aluminum and brass. Shit cuts like butter.
If you’ve never done any machining/programming it’s hard to appreciate how truly amazing those tool paths at the end are. Incredible machine work. Love shit like this.
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/12 "2011-02-24T21:39:41Z")
> [@Can you do the soulja boy?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-you-do-the-soulja-boy/39922/8):
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> Holy fucking feed in the beginning. That’s why I love cutting aluminum and brass. Shit cuts like butter.
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> If you’ve never done any machining/programming it’s hard to appreciate how truly amazing those tool paths at the end are. Incredible machine work. Love shit like this.
my dad’s been doing cad/drafting by hand/solid works/inventor for YEARS now. i know how that process works. its amazing to watch it work, esp towards the end.
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/13 "2011-02-24T21:42:14Z")
Definitely dude. Even just watching the program run in mastercam is cool as fuck. Actually putting something on a machine and watching it run at 100% rapid, mind blowing.
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/14 "2011-02-24T21:44:58Z")
I had to show it to my dad. He’s somebody that appreciates that kind of thing. He was saying that this machine would be able to produce an actual realistic rose flower from a block of aluminum and im like 😮 OHSHIT! that would look EPIC
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### Author:  [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/15 "2011-02-24T22:48:31Z")
> [@Can you do the soulja boy?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-you-do-the-soulja-boy/39922/8):
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> Holy fucking feed in the beginning. That’s why I love cutting aluminum and brass. Shit cuts like butter.
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> If you’ve never done any machining/programming it’s hard to appreciate how truly amazing those tool paths at the end are. Incredible machine work. Love shit like this.
meh, couple tens at best there. big feed is making nutty trochoidal cuts at full cutter depth in hardened steel or inconel.
watch this vid
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATjRSzXgjw)
Look at the color of the chips flying off the cutter…no coolant either 😉 95% of the heat is expelled through the chips themselves and not into the tooling/spindle.
Here’s a big 625 blisk being cut
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccK5osNCGW4)
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### Author:  [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/16 "2011-02-24T23:05:21Z")
Crazy cuts right there. Tons of heat turning those chips brown and blue. I still prefer to cut and watch brass/alum being cut. It’s just more fun.
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### Author:  [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/17 "2011-02-24T23:16:22Z")
Machining non-ferrous material definitely looks cleaner, especially 7075.
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### Author:  [@offroadzj](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/offroadzj)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/18 "2011-02-25T03:02:11Z")
we have almost that exact same machine at my work. We make quite a few of our own milled wheels exactly like the one shown. It is def. pretty awesome to watch it do its work.
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### Author:  [@94Gt5.0](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94Gt5.0)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/19 "2011-02-25T03:27:51Z")
> [@HD seems to have forgotten what it is](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hd-seems-to-have-forgotten-what-it-is/39856/16):
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> meh, couple tens at best there. big feed is making nutty trochoidal cuts at full cutter depth in hardened steel or inconel.
>
> watch this vid
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> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATjRSzXgjw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATjRSzXgjw)
>
> Look at the color of the chips flying off the cutter…no coolant either 😉 95% of the heat is expelled through the chips themselves and not into the tooling/spindle.
>
> Here’s a big 625 blisk being cut
>
> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccK5osNCGW4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccK5osNCGW4)
Is it weird that I fist-pumped through the entire 1st video?? :lol
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### Author:  [@AMD\_IS\_THE\_BEST](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AMD_IS_THE_BEST)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cnc-machining-a-billet-compressor-wheel/257076/20 "2011-02-25T06:09:52Z")
> [@HD seems to have forgotten what it is](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hd-seems-to-have-forgotten-what-it-is/39856/19):
>
> we have almost that exact same machine at my work. We make quite a few of our own milled wheels exactly like the one shown. It is def. pretty awesome to watch it do its work.
Where do you work?
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