MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'm making (milling) a small metal knob out of 9mm aluminium bar using a pillar drill as a vertical lathe and some inexpensive metal files to grind it down to a conical shape with a couple of radial grooves and a round over on the end... but it's very slow going. The files are clogging up with metal which doesn't seem to want to come out of the file and using the edge of the half round files to cut (mill) the grooves in seems to remove as much material from the file as it does the aluminium bar. Being a bad workman, I'm blaming the tools, which are old, slightly rusty and unbranded and/or Wilkos own.
Any engineers out there who can recommend a decent brand?
Or any engineers out there who can give me some tips on how to stop the tiny grinds of metal clogging up the files?
Cheers
Any engineers out there who can recommend a decent brand?
Or any engineers out there who can give me some tips on how to stop the tiny grinds of metal clogging up the files?
Cheers
