uncle d
2025-07-31 16:23:41
I received a box containing the face mill, an allen key, a torx key, an R8 arbor, and four inserts. The arbor and mill are packed separately to prevent damage, but the inserts were packed loose in a bag. This loose packaging allowed damage to two of my inserts, presumably from impacting each other during shipment. First impressions on the arbor are fine; but the face mill shows hasty, uneven file work on the non-precision surfaces —OTOH the mating surfaces and insert pockets appear well finished.You need to assemble the face mill to the arbor; this requires an 8mm or 5/16" allen key, which is not included. Instructions are likewise not included in the box, so I made do as best i could figure out. Installing the inserts to the face mill is a bit fiddly — there is a central screw as well as a hold-down for each. the central screw MUST be fully tightened before engaging the hold down or the inserts cant in the pocket.overall i'm a little disappointed in this mill. it works well enough for my purposes, but i'm disappointed that the fragile carbide inserts were packaged loose so that they could be damaged — normally carbide inserts ship in packaging with an individual section for each insert so they cannot touch each other and chip.
BlinkingSun
2025-06-29 10:47:24
I have had the pleasure of using this surfacer on a run of ten custom intake manifolds to surface the flanges following casting. It cuts well and leaves a finish able to be sealed to the head to hold boost so I couldn't ask for more. This is the only job I have used it on so far but the heads rotate. There is no doubt in my mind that I'll get long life out of this because the tool shows no wear yet and there is a lot of real estate left on the cutter heads.
Customer
2025-06-22 12:41:47
I've become a fan of these radius face-mills. I think they are versatile and are capable of using up more of the carbide than most insert tools..First I wasn't really pleased with this mill. I just couldn't get it to take a nice cut without it screaming like a toddler. I know it's not my machine, I'm running a Bridgeport and I use tools this size and way bigger with zero issues. Next could it be the tool? It seems well made but microns are hard to see and on a tool like this hard to measure. So I went with option c. the inserts. They looked pretty sketchy at first but I thought I'd give them a shot. I went ahead and measured them and bought some replacements from a brand I trust and no more chatter, and nice finish.Buy the tool, toss the carbide, you're welcome.
Don Gilbert
2025-05-30 17:11:08
I am using this on a bench top mill-drill so I really am not using it to its capabilities. A button cutter is great for ramping, contouring and because of a factor known a radial chip thinning, high speed machining, all things that you really can’t do on a machine like mine.What I CAN do with it is make a corner radius or fillet. Sometimes needed for looks, sometimes needed when you want to avoid creating a stress riser with a sharp corner, it is a thing you need to do and this little guy does it decently.The quality of these two pieces is not world class, I had some trouble getting the cutter on the arbor without forcing it. A little stone work fixed that. When you look at the pictures, you are getting inserts with indexing flats but there is also a clamp. You normally have one or the other, not both. Upon opening this, there are no indexing notches in the body, the insert can rotate freely, so thus, the clamp. So, no indexing but the pockets are designed to only contact the insert on the rim right below the cutting edge. What this allows is for the cutter to accept almost anybody’s inserts so long as the diameter is a match. Nice!So how does it cut? Horrible on my machine! Just as I expected. My machine is not rigid enough to cut a full radius without having to baby the cut. So that is what I do and end up with nice smooth fillets when I need them. It will face nicely on my machine as long as you are only taking a few thousandths at a time. So, it doesn’t do everything on my machine, but it does do what I need it to do.
Ravanja
2025-04-09 10:38:27
I measured the alignment of the inserts. If I start at the deepest one, the rest make 0.5 though shallower cuts in the direction of rotation, per insert. It's like they were cut on a small angle. So the first on is zero, the second is 0.5, then 1thou, then 1.5 thou shallower. The first insert then starts back at zero again.The result is that it sounds horrible as one insert is doing the majority of the work. So it hammers on that one insert and then the rest sound subdued gradually till it comes around to the deep one again.It really sounds more like a fly cutter than a face mill.As a result, I just can't use it. It causes so much vibration and the only way to reduce it is to go super slow.Maybe I'll try to correct it, maybe I'll just write it off as a bad experience. Time will tell. It is however unusable as it is.
HR
2025-02-11 10:34:05
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