Tooling Question

[pineyfolks]

Tapered end mills are typically used in the mold industry for milling mold cavities, but they can be used anywhere you need an angled surface. It's much easier to grab a tapered endmill than tilt the head on your mill and then have to tram it again. I have a good assortment of angles and use them regularly, particularly in gunsmithing. Tapered end mills are not used for taper pins. Typically taper pins have a taper of 1/4" per foot and require a special reamer to generate the proper taper.

Tom

I agree with TomG tapered mills should be used for side milling , if you try to drill a taper hole they will grab and feed their self in causing a crash and a broken endmill in the hole.

 

[British Steel]

I'll put in a couple of recommendations for fellow English members, if close by...

Technasales in Northcamp, Farnborough, Hampshire, 5 minutes from the M3 motorway, looks like a normal high-torquestreet shop, up front is a new tool sales area, taps, dies, drill bits etc, mainly consumables, out back is the secondhand stock, much the same kind of stuff, but a good part is usually the difficult sizes / standards like Whitworth, BSF etc.

10 minutes away is AHC in Camberley, Surrey, good selection of consumables plus a very good range of fasteners, and guys who take the time to look if you're after something unusual!

Not associated, happy customer etc.

Dave H. (the other one)