Greetings all,
I'm in the final stages of milling a large spur gear (5.5" dia 11 tooth) for repair of an old excavator. I'm using SAE 9310 stock (also nkown as EN 36 or BS 970) which is a nickel/chrome steel. My plan was to use a
5% cobalt fly cutter ground as a form tool to finish cut the final tooth shape after hoging out the majority of the stock with a carbide end mill. The carbide end mill worked great but my fly cutter lasted one tooth (groan) My thought is to produce another fly cutter but silver solder a carbide blank in place as the cutting edge and then grind it to the right form. I've got no experience grinding carbide. Any tips, suggestions or flame mail.TIA
Greg snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com