Tag: Vacuum Fixturing
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How to maintain .002″ flatness across 30 square inches.
Start with a 50 pound block of 6AL-V4 titanium. Whittle away at it until your left with 0.060 wall thickness, that has to maintain a flatness of .002″. It looks so easy and straightforward, looking at the model in a CAM system. Just do some pocket roughing, some gentle finishing passes, some nice and slow…