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

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.

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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