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fly cutter

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fly cutter [′flī ‚kəd·ər]
(mechanical engineering)
A cutting tool that revolves with the arbor of a lathe.


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Here is a list of common tooling used in CNC Machines: Drill bits End mills Plasma cutter Dovetail cutter Fly cutter If you would like to look at different types of CNC tooling, go to one of these sources on the Internet: Enco Travers McMasters-Carr Grainger Flip through a few of these suppliers'' catalogs and you will get an idea about the infinite styles of tooling.
By starting with a small cutter, we leave a fairly small radius as opposed to starting off with a 2" fly cutter, then a 1", then 3/4", then 1/2".
In the prototype stage for the new model, we used a regular brazed carbide single-point fly cutter and soon realized this just wasn't going to work on larger production runs" says Ned Polancec, general manager at Genesis.
 
 
 
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