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How do you stop chips from packing a small pocket on an unattended run?

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A 14 mm pocket in 6061 packs with chips about twenty minutes into a pallet. The tool is fine when someone stands there with an air gun. Nights we come back to a broken 6 mm end mill.

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The program has to get the chip out, because nobody will be holding the air gun. A peck, a higher pressure through-tool if you have it, or a wider slotting path that leaves the chip a way out, beats another air nozzle aimed from memory.

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Look at the pocket corner. A tool that rubs the finished wall on the way out recuts the chip it just made. A small lift before the retract stops that.

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If the mill still packs, do not leave that tool in an unattended pallet. Split the pocket to days until the path is honest.

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