The stepper did not slip. I have the Shapeoko XL. The EasyTram is anodized redish (I prefer that to pink). Not all the wheels have been upgraded but the Z have and some of the others. I would like to finish the wheel upgrade but Mr Beaver had run out. Maybe Vince’s upgrade would also address some of the deflection issues.
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The researchers from the link you provided imbedded thermocouples in the workpiece to measure its temperatures near the cut. The temperatures measured there were around 450 degrees C. That suggests that the carbide endmills that they used were good for temperatures significantly higher than that. Aluminum melts at 660 degrees C. Pyrographers typically use tools with less than 571 degrees C tip temperatures. Most plastics melt at around 200 degrees C. So, why do endmills need to be kept “cool to the touch”?
Regardless, the proof is in the pudding and its nice when you can kill two birds with one stone, even if it may be guiding the lily. I recall @Vince.Fab mentioning an IR camera recently. That seems lot easier than the thermocouple approach.
I’m glad to hear your planning on measuring some K Factors!
Holy Cow! Mitsubishi says their endmill coatings are good to 1300 degrees C!!!
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How about using an infrared thermometer? It is a lot cheaper, more available and provides a temperature not a graphic depiction.
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Exactly what I was planning on using, I raided the kitchen a few minutes ago in search from our laser/IR cooking thermometer 
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True, I have no evidence that endmill temperature is necessarily bad. Just personal experience from bad and good cuts, BUT that might have been only a sign of rubbing vs not rubbing.
Also, I learned a new saying today (“gilding the lily”) !
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I found them too hard to keep aimed at the small the moving target.
I’ll try to work in more idioms since you seem willing to lend me an ear! 
Agreed, so it will double as good entertainment, like in the good old days of shooting ducks on TV with the Nintendo gun
Joke aside, what I wanted to do is measure endmill temperature immediately after the end of a given test cut, so aiming won’t be an issue. Accuracy, that’s another problem.
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5 min of googling and now my next 40 minutes HAVE to go into watching him talk about this :
We’ll see if he mentions thermal considerations at any point
EDIT: the video is awesome, probably the best intro to adaptive clearing I have seen, and the guy is brilliant. But…apart from a few seconds near the beginning, no clear answer regarding chip versus heat. I’ll keep searching.
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That video is really dope. Thanks for sharing it. So much to learn and so little time! 
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I think the answer is in the HSM chart that he copied from the cnccookbook. That chart shows that heat increases with increasing cutting speed (SFM/RPM) and, assuming that the feed rate was constant (was it?), power until the material starts to melt (as he said the chips become “plastic”). I wonder what happens with plastic! Note that Titanium is also a “non-ferrous metal” but has a melting temperature of 1668 degrees C, so HSM probably won’t work with it. 
2019-08-29 Here’s an update/correction to BW’s HSM chart from.
~ Twice the spindle speed required for Aluminun but far less for steel and iron!
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Well thank you, I had seen that chart before but it had not clicked for me / I had not made the link with the decreasing chipload (assuming, as you mention, that feedrate is kept constant in this experiment)
So at least for metals, at slow RPMs thicker chiploads do help removing heat, and at high RPMs it matters less because of this nice plunge of the “non-ferrous metals” curve that is the root of HSM, so one can get away with small chiploads (and we’re back to the 0.001" rule)
It would be very interesting to see what curves exist for other softer materials, I imagine they only have the first part of the curve (with heat increasing with Vc)
Oh and about titanium, I thought @Vince.Fab used HSM ?
I think its more likely that less heat is generated at the lower feed rates because there’s less cutting power and friction. So there is no contradiction after all. (I removed mention of the contradiction from post 111 to avoid potential confusion.) But maybe that’s the genesis (or oranges as Trump would say) of BW’s misconception?
@Vince.Fab used the Nomad to mill Titanium. It’s limited to 10,000 RPM, so he apparently wasn’t HSMing.
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Also used the shapeoko to cut ti adaptive but what the hell, let’s go 100% D in titanium too… even though I like a thicker chipload.
Some metals transfer heat differently and I adjust radial and axial to compensate, but that’s a little experimental
I wonder how it works. Is the cutter softening the material by heating it? Seems like using coolants would be counterproductive too. 
Maybe, but hot wires cut plastic and hot knives cut butter nicely. More experiments for you?
Well…that was way too close for comfort 
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More speed Igor!
The sfm is already 50% higher that it should be lol. Running mild steel was fine but ide reccomend max 1/8 tool @ 10k for ti and other hard metals.
We don’t have the power, especially on the X to push those kinds of loads. So there you go folks, 100% diameter adoc in Ti adaptive
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Using the calculator today, I did not see any recommendations on ramping. Should it be 2D, 3D or even 4D?