Other Porting tools

[sjetrider]

I am looking for some Long porting tools at a reasonable price but good quality. A long shaft with various different cutting ends for rough cutting on billet and cast aluminum as well as sleave cutting. I have alot of grinding to do on some cases and billet cylender and the cheesey tools I have will make for even more tedious work. If anyone knows where to find good porting tools at a reasonable cost please let me know. I am looking for cutting ends like in pic one but shaft lengths simular to pic. 2 or longer.



thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Matt_E]

This guy has good porting tools.

Reasonable cost? Don't know about that.

 

[Breese08SJ]

http://www.use-enco.com

This is the best place I have found for carbide cutters, single and double ended mills and lathe cutters... They have a ton of stuff and should have 6" carbide cutters that will work perfect for porting, I purchased 3-4 of these a few years back still pretty sharp and straight... Go to the website and request a catalogue. Enco carries both import and made in USA products... Take your pic on how much you want to spend....

 

[sjetrider]

This guy has good porting tools.

Reasonable cost? Don't know about that.

Dayum, he is rite down the road from me too. Thanks Matte, I will give him a shout. I take it you have used his tools?

 

[sjetrider]

http://www.use-enco.com

This is the best place I have found for carbide cutters, single and double ended mills and lathe cutters... They have a ton of stuff and should have 6" carbide cutters that will work perfect for porting, I purchased 3-4 of these a few years back still pretty sharp and straight... Go to the website and request a catalogue. Enco carries both import and made in USA products... Take your pic on how much you want to spend....

Cool, thanks.

 

[Matt_E]

I quit porting my own stuff before getting into better tools. I was about to pull the trigger on better tools, and after a bunch of research, that's the place I was going to buy them from.

 

[TOBY]

Dayum, he is rite down the road from me too. Thanks Matte, I will give him a shout. I take it you have used his tools?

I told your dumba$$ thats where glen and kyle were gittin there stuff.:ugh2:

 

[#ZERO]

I would use a long tapered handpiece with a 1/4-collet and use the shorter shank carbide burrs IMO.

Also be sure to wax your carbide burrs so the aluminum doesn't stick to them before use.

http://www.falcontool.com/carbideburs.html

http://ccspecialtytool.com/

http://www.pferdusa.com/products/202/index.html

http://www.lopacki.com/foredom/

http://www.artcotools.com/carbide-burs-c-271.html

 

[QuickMick]

I have couple used but in good condition you can have. they are like the 2nd pic with a round tip, double cut, high speed steel, 1/2" wide and about 3 inches long.

 

[GIL]

I have couple used but in good condition you can have. they are like the 2nd pic with a round tip, double cut, high speed steel, 1/2" wide and about 3 inches long.

Now what are we really talking about here? LMAO
















jk

 

[QuickMick]

har har Gil. I do have a deburr like described 6" long but its the only one I have. We use these at work and come across these once and a while.
I dont know how to port a motor and all I ever use these for is to clean up some of my stick rod welds gone bad.

 

[Waternut]

Also be sure to wax your carbide burrs so the aluminum doesn't stick to them before use.

I was about to say something along the lines of aluminum clogging the bits. Never heard of using wax. Is this like car wax or candle wax?

 

[Motorheads5]

haha Don't all stick rod weld's go bad

 

[QuickMick]

haha Don't all stick rod weld's go bad

no, but when im welding 16 gauge (1/16") sheet metal with a 3/32 low hydrogen 7018 rod at 55 amps, yea it can go wrong. :grumble:

 

[Motorheads5]

I hate stick welding, just saying

 

[NVJAY775]

I was in a shop a while back while they were fabbing some large aluminum thing. And they would run the grinders on bar soap occasionally to keep it from sticking to the grinding wheels. Trippy, but it worked great.

 

[Motorheads5]

Yeah that's an old school technique using soap or wax even for circular/band saw blades to keep it from sticking. We do alot of galvanized metal work here in marine piling / dock fabrication ect. and we will use aluminum grinding wheel's on the hot dipped galvanizing because it will not gum up the grinding wheel's the way it work's is the grinding media break's apart faster than the galvanizing can build up on the wheel.

 

[#ZERO]

I was about to say something along the lines of aluminum clogging the bits. Never heard of using wax. Is this like car wax or candle wax?

I use the stuff called Grinders Grease from Eastwood and it makes a big difference on how long the burrs will last without loading up with aluminum. http://www.eastwood.com/ew-grinders-grease-8-oz.html

Watcon also sells something similar called porting wax; http://www.watcon.com/Catalog_Pages/Porting_Wax.htm

Just plain old carnauba car wax would work better than nothing on your burrs if you don't have this stuff.

 

[-XXX-]

I have excellent results with this!



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