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MACHINEABLE OR NO?

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valmeidan

Aerospace
Dec 13, 2011
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Just wondering if this is a difficult part to machine. It is a standard triclamp 1" fitting, but I am trying to design a swing type check valve feature into it, so I am machining in a roughly 2mm dia cut to house a dowel pin of some sort attached to a flap if that makes sense.
 
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On your small, rectangular groove can you put a radius equal to the bottom radius on the ends and bottom edges? That way it can be machined with a ball type end mill (assuming not-to-tight tolerances).
 
As it is right now, I can't think of another way to make this to assumed-tolerance requirements unless it was with a sinker/ram EDM.

Adding some fillet radii in a few places where there are sharp corners will, as BrianE22 stated, allow for a much wider field of manufacturing possibilities.
 
Are you making one or one million?

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What about the other half of the fitting? You need a volume for the check-plate to swing into, and I don't believe that cannot be made from a standard fitting.
 
Can you just change the design and remove the sharp edges? Seems straight forward
 
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