How to use tungsten steel milling cutters correctly? Tungsten steel milling cutters are generally mainly used in CNC machining centers and CNC engraving machines. It can also be installed on a regular milling machine and is suitable for high-speed machining. Tungsten steel milling cutter is a type of tool made of tungsten steel, and its hardness is also that of a lever. So how to use tungsten steel milling cutter correctly?

When tungsten steel milling cutters perform milling operations, the workpiece can be fed along or relative to the direction of tool rotation, which is related to the selection of the workpiece.

When tungsten steel milling cutters perform forward milling (also known as co milling), the feed direction of the workpiece is the same as the rotation direction of the tungsten steel milling cutter in the cutting area.

The chip thickness gradually decreases from the beginning until the end of the cut decreases during peripheral milling; When performing reverse milling (also known as reverse milling), the feed direction of the workpiece is exactly opposite to the rotation direction of the milling cutter in the cutting area. The chip thickness can start at 0 and gradually increase with the cutting process. This can be considered as reverse milling, where the tungsten steel milling cutter blade starts cutting from zero chip thickness, which generates a high cutting force and drives the gap between the tungsten steel milling cutter and the workpiece to become larger and larger.