CNC Machining a billet compressor wheel

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@Boxersix

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

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

Is it weird that I fist-pumped through the entire 1st video?? :lol