Are Ceramic End Mills Actually BETTER Than Carbide End Mills???

We've been showing some really fast cnc machining cuts in inconel with ceramic tooling and it's important to understand the pros and cons to choosing ceramic over carbide if you're planning on going that direction...

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[brentnanita]

On mazatrol mills we switched from an end mill to an insert endmill that way we could switch from carbide to ceramic depending on material type. Then we would flip the insert corners for the finish pass. Saved alot of money I was told.

[keithlane]

I've had good luck with ceramic mills as long as it's not an interupted cut.
Good video showing the chips taking the heat away from the part.

[cfgosnell]

'When implementing tool management, make sure the machine can swap tools in the middle of a cut, or change the tool before it runs out of time. Older machines would use the tool in a 30 minute cut (for example) as long as it had 1 minute left on life...

[africanelectron]

The advances in ceramic technology have been unparalleled in any other material science in the last 20 years...

[Numer]

I would have never thought ceramic would work as an end mill. Hanging out there like that with so many vibrations. I would expect it to turn to dust on contact.

[landlifem]

For true roughing I'd say carbide has the win 90% of the time. Semi roughing where you are using less of the cutting edge, be it milling or turning, ceramics probably have the win with good tool management.

[crazycooterMN]

Tool group management is awesome, first time I used it was in 2008 and it's a lifesaver turning threads!

[LukeA_]

Could you do a video on ceramic turning? I overheard some guys at my shop talking about trying ceramics but they didn't know much about it

[lonnieporter]

" . . . and it really just depends on what you're doing, right?"
As it does with all tooling choices, my friend. Everything has its strengths and weaknesses.

[haydenjudy]

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[alphonse]

Les carbures de tungstène sont déjà des céramiques, quelles sont les différences avec celle-ci ? Merci et en tous cas très impressionnant,

[andrewbeaton]

LOVE THESE DAILY VIDEOS OF KNOWLEDGE YOU SHARE!!

[valuedhumanoid]

Ceramics need to be ran much faster feeds and speeds than carbide. That’s where many get too conservative and the tool doesn’t last. We had our vendors tell us the correct way to use them in our materials and our engineers balk when programming it. And dry. No coolant or the damn things will shatter

[jonamr]

Had my first encounter with H99 a few weeks ago. Only took me an hour to figure out what was going on and find parameter 13265.

[henria.]

Wait till you learn that carbide is a ceramic

[jasonruch]

You also make it up for regrinding and recoating the tool, , , usually about 35 bucks a emill

[mr.ranyhomemade]

A question the first Mills why you didn't add the water?

[DangerNugget]

Ceramic blows tungsten out of the water for parts harder than 48HRC~. I work with steel that can push 60-67HRC daily. Use to use tungsten taking 0.2in cuts at roughly 250sf/m. Now Im using ceramic taking 0.6 cuts at 350sf/m. And what's great is the ceramic can be ground back into shape to be reused much easier than tungsten. Tho on anything in the 40HRC or lower.... Lots of chatter.

[electronicperformer]

Would using coolant with the ceramic mill be a waste?

[cronejones]

I am more curious about a 1/4 drill bit?