I need a very small T-slot cutter

Buy it from overseas or buy the nearest one over what you need and take it to a cutter grinding shop to have it cut down to the size you need.

For overseas sources try

You might also look for a source in Canada (mostly metrified) or Australia (pretty much metrified). KBC Tools would be a good bet.

Cheers Trevor Jones

Try searching under "Woodruff Key Cutter" and you will find smaller tools than what you have already encountered.

My experience shows that "T-slot Cutters" are designed with teeth that cut alternately high/low, with each tooth cutting on two edges. The woodruff key cutters don't side cut but do have some relief on the edges so they can clean up sides without scuffing. I have used them in the past to make T-slots, after the slot had been well roughed-out beforehand.

Jim

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Try:

For a custom ground cutter.

No affiliation, just a satisfied customer. They made a small custom T slot cutter near that size for me in the past. Along with other custom cutters. Same day delivery in most cases. (for me)

Pete

Greetings:

I can buy you one on Friday 8 August, from Hahn & Kolb here in Stuttgart, Germany. You can use PayPal if you want some confidence in the transaction.

7 to 10 days via USPS Priority mail. They go for about 23 to 25 Euros. Let me know if you want more details.

So where do you dive? I dove a bunch in Key West about 6 years ago... Wilkes Barre, Kendrick, etc.

Regards, Jim Brown

Hello Jim,

Thank you very much. However, I've decided--for now at least--to try modifying an endmill for this task per a suggestion from Larry Twaits. I have some cheap endmills from Russia that I don't feel the least bit bad about subjecting to the grinder. :P

So I'll pass for now. But I really do appreciate your genereous offer to assist me

I have dived the Red Sea, Guam, Palau, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, New Zealand, and California. Next stop, Thailand!

Regards, Michael

if you have access to a lathe and a grinder make your own to whatever size you want from I think you call it drill steel we in aus call it silver steel then harden and temper it to dark straw color hope this helps It was a lot cheaper when I did it than buying one or getting one reground silver in aus

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