Technical Information - The use and maintenance of Cutters and Collets

These pages contain some technical information relating to the selection and use of cutters and collets in your CNC Router.

The importance of the part played by cutters and their holding mechanism in a CNC Router is often overlooked with the result being reduced productivity and poor quality of parts produced on the router. In actual fact the cutter is one of the most important components and is the one which can make the most difference to the perfomance of the machine in terms of cut quality and productivity.

Of course, the machine settings, eg: feed rate, depth of cut, spindle rpm etc, also can have a major effect of the machine performance but if the wrong cutter is being used no amount of tweaking of the machine settings will ever achieve optimum performance.

Tool Materials and Geometry						Calculating Feeds and Speeds
Tool and collet Maintenance						Troubleshooting Cutting Problems