Router 2600 Pro - Material

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Router 2600 Pro - Material

Post by Benny » Thu 19 Mar , 2009 18:28 pm

Customer writes in regarding Router 2600 Pro:

Can we machine titanium on the Router 2600 Pro? It is non ferrous but very hard.

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Post by bradders » Fri 20 Mar , 2009 9:10 am

I personally would say no, but see what others say

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Post by Steve » Sat 21 Mar , 2009 12:47 pm

It would depend what they are trying to cut.

If they are only taking a 2/1000 - 4/1000" off at a time and buy the correct tooling it would do it.

If it is more than that the cutting forces would cause deflection on a router and the quality would be poor.

The VMC1300 would be more suitable but again it depends on the aplication.

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Post by Lone_Ranger » Sat 21 Mar , 2009 21:56 pm

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To quote the imortal words

"You can`t be serious"?????????

Fair chance of destroying your machine, it`s like cutting a reasonably hard steel and needs very sharp ( 20 grain Solid Carbide ) tooling and LOTS of coolant!

As previously mentioned cutting force needs to be high and may well be beyond the capabilities of the Router servos and mechanics!!

My advice for what it`s worth is to just get someone with a proper metal cutting machine to do it for you!!!

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Rob

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Post by Denford Admin » Tue 24 Mar , 2009 12:38 pm

You may find this link interesting:
http://www.gmttitanium.com/en/technical ... gdata.html

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