When machining larger threads in long-chipping materials or normal steel and you want good chip control, a chip breaker in the threading operation might be a good solution. In combination with using a smaller tool and getting a narrower chip, these oscillating movements to the X-axis do a very good job of breaking those chips. This is machining a 4-TPI standard Acme thread with a standard 2mm Groove tool with chip breaker enabled. The wavelength determines the chip length before it breaks, here we are using 4 times the pitch as wavelength. Programmed with ThreadTracer in GibbsCAM This chip breaker in ThreadTracer is an implementation similar to Sandvik Coromant OptiThreading™. All credit to Sandvik for coming up with this solution for chip control in threading. Read about the configureability of this chip breaker in ThreadTracer here : https://lnkd.in/d2h74hbU #threading #machining #gibbscam #chipcontrol #chipbreaker
You do some of the coolest stuff Cato.
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1yI have a confusion on this, because if we do this on a fix feed rate then some striking action will occur on the insert, due to wich it could break easily, or we might not utilise it's full life.