Milling Chamfer Tools

I was wondering in wood routing you get a range of chamfer tools with various radii. Is it possible to get similar cutters for a milling machine. I want to put a round chamfer on a piece of square aluminium and this would be the easiest way.

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Richard Bradshaw
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Yup. They are called a "corner rounding cutter". Just type this into the J &L search box and it will come up with a whole selection of sizes.

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Peter

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Peter Neill

ebay ...they are called radius cutters ...or radius mills.

you may have to buy an arbour for some of them.

make sure its a 1" inch arbour

and the tool has one inmch hole in it ..

as these are the most plenty full and common

all the best.mark

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mark

Yes. Look for corner rounding end mills. Be in a chair, when you see prices.

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

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Bill

The manufacturers of aluminium and upvc window frames use these to cut industry-standard extrusions for individual orders. You might be able to find a local manufacturer who'd run your pieces through his router for beer money, if it's a one-off.

Alternatively, these people go out of business frequently. Keep a look out for receivership auctions.

-adrian

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Adrian Godwin

Hello Richard if you are only after a small radius on a reasonably short run on aluminium I would think that trying one of the wood routing cutters was worth a try, after all they are normally carbide faced and even for the cheaper priced of one of these it's worth an experiment. Cheers Colin

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colin.wildgust

Thanks for the replies guys especially Bill and Colin I will give the wood router tools a go certainly worth it looking at the price of the "proper tools".

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Richard Bradshaw

...yes....edge cutters. I use an 'ovalo' molding cutter along the edges of MS steel blocks for decorative purposes. --

Chris Edwards (in deepest Dorset) "....there *must* be an easier way!"

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Chris Edwards

Use a router.

Works a charm, on al.

Shoulda mentioned that in my first post.

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

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