It's amazing how long that style of Sandvik cutter has been around, i was using the same cutter in 1990 and it wasn't new then, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It would be interesting and useful to know more about the whole context... What is the further use of that block? Is it custom made for a specific project? Will it be cut into smaller pieces? Will it be forged into something?
You definitely do your share of Titanium You tricked us on this one, I'm thinking how the heck can he maintain thickness on a rough casting, you had previously machined the bottom surface. Lol
@@MFKR696 I think he means at the end you can see one side is still not machined, like in epoxy river tables where they use the natural waney (not wavy) edge of the wood slab for the river section.
I've been so spoiled by the Titans of CNC videos, with all their machines being today's models and in brand new condition with the latest and greatest in fixturing, workholding, Schunk vises, and Kennametal's latest tooling, that it makes me thing you need to recapitalize and bring your shop into the 21st century. Get productivity up, make chips faster, make more money, and do something about the broken shields in the machine while you're at it. It just looks so...."machine shop at the end of the alley".
so you've watched a few machining videos and here you are lecturing a machine shop on how to do its business? Your right at the meaty end of the Dunning Kruger curve arent you.
Why would you machine such a big chunk? I'd have thought people would saw smaller pieces off to make parts, I guess what I'm wondering is was this lump destined for one big part like an engine block? Otherwise I don't see why you'd need nice flat sides.
Maybe - it's more difficult to get good pricing on Ti chips compared to Al chips, at least in my experience. Maybe that's changed, I haven't tried to sell any in a while.
Those chips are not suitable for any form of printing, the powder you bought is very specially processed for uniformity of size, shape, and purity. That's why it's so expensive.
Titanium isn’t cast - it’s precipitated out of solution as a sponge and forged into a solid mass. That’s because of titanium’s high melting point and tendency to want to burn in pretty much any atmosphere (including pure nitrogen (titanium nitride is a bitch to machine off)).
Allan's explanation is partially correct - the ore does go through the Kroll process to create sponge, but this sponge is then melted (for instance, in a vacuum furnace) to be cast into blocks, which are then forged or rolled into useful shapes for further processing.
