Hi.
My question.
Can I scrape a piece of tool steel with a metalworking scraper, do we have such a thing at the space.
I am interested in flattening two convex surfaces which are supposed to mate.
I am open to suggestions.
I am pretty confident I could flatten the metal using a dremel and a grinding bit if I work incrementally, continuously checking, marking and grinding the high spots. It will take a long time though.
What are the options?
How big is it? Could use the mini mill or CNC - I’m not sure if we have a flycutter but I was planning on buying one soon
Would tool steel not wear out mill bits pretty quickly?
The first replacement blade I found was 60 HRC so we’re in abrasives territory. The easiest way to do this is the surface grinder at SMEE. Might be best to tag @metaltechs
They can be hand lapped as well.
According to Google and the engineering forums I looked at you can use a fly cutter on 60 hrc steel.
Surface grinding would probably be easiest.
Yeah good point, and that mini-mill isn’t really up to the job even if we used a cutter with a carbide insert