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A customer contacted us today looking for tools to turn his Titanium 6AL4V. He mentioned he has several jobs comming up. Turning Titanium is not that bad they key is to have a razor sharp edge. We can do most of the work with high polished uncoated carbide in a good micrograin C3 area.
Using CNGP / WNGP style inserts I would rough between 150-200 SFM around .008 per rev. You can also use a PCD diamond tipped insert and that would run about 400 SFM in Titanium. It all depends on how many parts you have to do and if time is an issue. one or two parts to make will not be on time or tool life.
There are some ALTiN-TiALN coated inserts out there, while they can take more heat normally you find Titanium coatings do not like to cut Titanium material. Stay uncoated or use a coating that is not Titanium based. I have one and will share this info in a future blog. Posted By: Tony On: 2010-04-27 15:30:34 |
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