Cutting Copper with Pro5

Probably any tool will work — the issue will be adjusting feeds and speeds so that you’re still forming a chip (which will carry away heat) and the specific alloy in question — pure copper is “gummy” and hard to machine and sticks to tooling.

A coated tool should help.

@wmoy has a video series on this sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/materialmonday

which I tried to gather at:

and there is a video on thin sheets incl. copper and brass:

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