Message from @Nic386
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@Frostbite Aye, but the admin wasnt ghost-pinging the entire chat then
Fair.
Anyone here do any kind of milling?
Yee yee
What you need
I'm looking to buy some endmills for a drill press. Any suggestions?
You can't go wrong with hss
80% builds?
A 4 flute will go fine
PKP, L86 and MG36
@Anticom as long as you are doing it in plastic or aluminum the cheep 4 flute end mills you can get on amazon or in a hardware store should be fine, with steel or anything else you wanna go with a professional machine tool supplier
Don't buy a shitty 4 flute. Buy a mid tier so you have to do less cleanup
I'd say buy one at 1/4th and a few smaller ones
Well I was thinking more about being able to cut the material and not blow apart on ya but yeah, better tooling. Will always give better results
And yeah, a 1/4, 1/8, and probably whatever specific pin hole sizes you need
Dont use an endmill for pin holes
Use a proper drill bit
Endmills don't like doing the work of a drill
I don't see an issue with plunging it
Center punch the hole for the drill bit and rock and roll
I mean yeah, centerdrilling and drilling it out would probably give you a much better result
Not even a center drill. Just punch mark it
I know with the Polymer 80s, they come with all the bits you need don't they?
Yeah but he is probably doing an ar15
Poly 80s you can do with a drill
Poly 80s you can do with a dremel in a pinch
You can for sure use dremels
The holes will be shit more than likely if you try that tho
Nope
Lock it in a vice and don't plunge it and you'll be ok
Well with the P80 yeah cause it has the holding piece with the drill guides
But anything else is a crapshoot
Probably all the handguns but 1911 molds would be fine
Don't try on a rifle
Exactly
Ty for advice
I'm not doing an 80%. I'm trying to machine ak trunnions
Oh.
Well, more specifically I'm trying to machine the 4.5 mm sidefolders
because I'm not payinng $200 for one of those