How would you cut this?

[jeremy13]

I ground an old carbide boring bar that had previously broken to do this test in aluminum. And I bottomed it out and broke it. The specs are 1.50” diameter and .75” high with a 60degre cone. And in grade 5 Titanium.

[Forestgnome]

Did the tool come into contact on three sides? I could see that as a problem. That's a tricky cut! I would be tempted to use a non-piloted hole saw in the tailstock to cut a clearance channel to just short of the bottom before using two different tools to cut the wall and the cone. Don't know how it would work though.

[Dr Stan]

Or rough out the inside on a rotary table.

[jeremy13]

I was thinking maybe using one of the face grooving tools. And cut the profile with it, could use a round nose insert. But I haven’t found the right one yet. Or have any experience with one. Might try it, if I can find one cheep on sucker bay.

[MrSleepy]

Can it be made as a two piece item with the cone bolted to the middle.

Is this for a copper SC cone ?..

Rob

[tmc_31]

Jeremy, you could use a trepanning tool to cut a groove. Then a small (1/4") triangular carbide tool to hog out the cone in the middle. An alternative to the trepanning tool would be a rotobroach (a carbide hole saw). The rotobroach might work better due to the depth of the initial groove.

good luck,

Tim

[jeremy13]

The hole saw or rotobroach is an idea. Did I mention I need 60 of these? If it would be feasible I would have a forming die made stamp it out of plate.

MrS Nothing exciting like a SC cone. But if I have a die made it could be used for that

[Dr Stan]

The hole saw or rotobroach is an idea. Did I mention I need 60 of these? If it would be feasible I would have a forming die made stamp it out of plate.

MrS Nothing exciting like a SC cone. But if I have a die made it could be used for that

I've never cast titanium, but could this be a case of using lost wax casting?

[Evan]

Looks like a job for explosive forming. You are the only person on this site that I know of that is equipped to experiment with that.

[jeremy13]

Evan I usually use too much and have to dig the piece out of the ground. It hasn’t rained much, might be some hard digging. But that might be on option.

[RussZHC]

Maybe sort of like forestgnome's question but does the cone meet the "sidewall", at its base? Forming a sharp interior corner/point, or is there a flat between the base of the cone and the "sidewall"?

[jeremy13]

It has a nice big .062rad wear the wall and cone base meat.
Sorry I missed that question forestgnome Yep I hit the three sides at the same time. I thought I had more relief in the tool.

[macona]

Just a cnc job with a trepanning tool. No big deal. Any shop with a good cnc lathe could bust out 60 of them pretty quickly.

Melting and casting of titanium is usually done in a vacuum furnace.

[K Barton]

Depending on the circle diamater the may be a face grooving tool avaviable from Carboloy, Kennametal or Manchester tool, there are different projection lengths avaiable. A work I use one from Carboloy which I have somewhat modified as the arc diamater that we need was not avavaible. I orderd the closest size that was made then hand ground the arc that I needed one the insert seat support, leaving the seat area untouched. I use this tool to undercut a shoulder on parts that we make. The inner diamater of the undercut is 1.9375" along an area turned for a bearing to fit uppon. The insert is a double ended LCMF A250 R*****, this gives us a .250 Dia under cut, with a depth of .125. I think that there are other radiuses aviable, dont have catalog here at home. I do know that the other companies that I mentioned also make similar face groove tooling, do not know cost off hand.

Ken

[dian]

so what is that, pistons for brake calipers?