Questions about milling Acetal and FR4

General rule for low melting point plastics is to keep your feed rate high to avoid local heating and melting, use dust extraction to get the static-cling chips away too. Start with low depth of cut going fast (1500mm/min or more) and slowly increase the DoC based on how it sounds.

On the FR4, if that’s the glass fibre PCB material I believe that the dust from this can be very very bad for you, see this thread

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