Sorry to ask again, but any on ewith experience out there - I need your assistance. Assuming average spindle speed and blade sharpness, how much smaller shall I make my tongue to fit the groove?
0.04mm?
Thanks for the input. I don't have access to the machine I just send drawing over the internet to a machine shop.
So we can assume only average spindle speeds and average sharpness on the tooling.
At present the groove is 10.160 mm and the tongue is 10.158 mm i.e. one hundreth smaller on both...
The tongue and groove are straight.
No lubricant will be used.
The machine I take it is very rigid (it's a 3 axis mill machine)
The two components are very ridged. It's 30mm thick on one and part and 60mm.
I'm using tongue and groove and I want to know whether 0.01 mm difference in size on both sides of the tongue between the tongue and groove will mean to the fitting.
I want the contact to be as close as possible while still being able to remove the tongued item by hand.
The material is...
