How to operate a hand mill - learn the tool
There are three types of tools: vertical, edge and combined. Vertical is also called submersible and is used for all types of milling. In such a milling cutter, the motor moves from bottom to top along the guides, so that you can cut out holes of the required depth and make grooves. Edge or edging type designed for working with edges. It is distinguished by its light weight, as well as sufficient power.
The third type is combined .There are two bases in the set, one of which processes the edges, and the second one is used for submersible milling. To understand how to operate a manual milling cutter, you need to understand its design. It looks like a vertical frame, which has an engine that is attached to special rails, which serve as guides. The engine goes down and rises.
In the collet or special clamp a milling cutter( cutting tool) is installed, which performs the cutting of the shape you need. Often, the set includes a milling compass, a parallel stop, a guide roller and a copying sleeve. When deciding to purchase a router, take into account its ability to adjust the speed and select the desired option.
Handmade thread - the essence of
work. As with other woodworking tools, milling with a hand mill must be planned in advance. The device needs to be adjusted, checked for malfunctions, and this will become a guarantee of a qualitative result. Without making simple adjustments, you can not achieve an accurate and clean surface to be treated. In addition, over time, you will have the opportunity to purchase a better milling cutter and improve accuracy in work.
Cheap models are assembled with not too high accuracy, and are also not considered reliable. Because of this, often the attempt to rebuild a tool does not end successfully. If you describe the techniques of working with a hand mill, the most popular among them is the milling of quarters, grooves, grooves in workpieces and grooves. Forms can be located not only across the layers, but also along, and also be closed or out on the edge( open).
Such forms can perform some constructive functions, for example, form integral and detachable connections. The work with a manual router is not easy, so it's worth to stop at each reception separately.
Manual milling - video and useful tips
Milling is called profiling. It is used for work with molded profile products( skirting boards, cornices, glazing beads), also during interior decoration, manufacturing of hand-made articles and furniture. Such elements carry in themselves both a functional load, and decorative. Milling of contours and complex surfaces in the production of furniture, interior products and other elements, is an artistic refinement.
In this case, templates are used that make it possible to make a copy of complex shapes with incredible accuracy, while they become identical. When the thread is hand-wound, the elements begin to carry a functional load. Objects to which this type of work is applied are holes for locks and canopies, as well as grooves. During the serial production, the parts are processed by specialized milling machines, but in everyday life the universal manual model is also able to cope with them.