MDF Feed and speed

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I believe the Carbide 3D precision collet set is available as a separate purchase from some of our resellers — if you have difficulty finding them in stock, let us know at sales@carbide3d.com and we’ll do our best to assist.

Alternately, a variety of sizes of precision collets are available from a 3rd party, Elaire Corp.:

Makita Style Router Collets - Elaire Corp

For feeds and speeds please see:

Origin/consistency of chipload recommendations

I’ve been going back to the basics of the whole feeds and speeds thing for a minute, and this time I want to focus on chipload values only, not the infinite number of associated RPM/feed combinations. I collected a small sample of feeds and speeds below from: usual recommand values from 3 or 4 different web sites what CarbideCreate uses the Shapeoko feeds and speeds chart for the #201, 1/4" endmills Will’s [Tableau] (https://public.tableau.com/profile/willadams#!/vizhome/Carbide3DCNCFeedsand…

and

Feeds & speeds

with a spreadsheet for this at:

Speeds, Feeds, Power, and Force (SFPF) Calculator

The workbook was updated to add the following worksheets to help answer @Vandel212’s question and correct cell E32 (i.e. to say “Cutting” instead of “Not Cutting”). Here’s the latest version. 2019-09-15 SFPF Workbook.zip (645.2 KB) [%40Vandel212] [%40gmack] Here’s the latest workbook showing some sheets added to show several plywood cutting approaches. 2019-09-16 SFPF Workbook.zip (2.9 MB)