Hi, have a client that wants some grill covers made in AZEK, I hear this stuff cuts like wood, anyone work with it on a CNC? regular end mills, or treat it like plastic? Thanks
From contributor De
Treat like plastic and use up shear bits
From contributor No
Thank you Dean
From contributor B.
We cut it quite often. We use either a compression bit or cut almost all the way thorough with a down cut spiral and then finish with an up cut spiral. Second pass is just cutting through the onion skin.
We use a 3/8" carbide 2-flute bit at 18,000 rpm and about 200 ipm feed on 3/4" and 1" material. This does a nice, clean job.
Different brands of PVC do work differently. We've used Kleer, Azek and Versatex. Never had a particular problem on the CNC with any of them.
BH Davis
From contributor Lu
Did you ever have to run a bead profile the full length of the sheets of PVC? what type of tooling did you use to do this ?
