HSS shell milling cutter | Adcock Shipley 1ESG vintage milling machine

A short video showing my Adcock Shipley 1ESG milling machine in action. I'm using a HSS shell milling cutter (on a 40 international taper shank) to machine some scrap mild steel that will be made into replacement jaws for the milling machine vice. In this video clip I'm taking it easy with a depth of cut about 3 or 4 mm and 20 mm wide. I'm applying soluble cutting oil with a hand held sprayer and room temperature is about 2 degrees C hence there is some visible "steam".

[@jimneban2639]

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[@Militarycollector]

I never have much luck with shell mills.. I have a few nice ones but when I go to Mo steal it just doesn’t seem to want to work very well aluminum comes out much better but I see videos like this and wonder what I’m doing wrong..??

[@AChicken-sh1gc]

what speeds feeds sizes are u using ?

[@Militarycollector]

I never really paid much attention to it just starting the machine up and playing around with it to see what kind of works best as far as feeds and speeds go… it always seems to just create such a racket and really bouncing around sort of speak not making clean cuts… The shell mills are brand new so I know it’s not A issue of being dull and worn out.. I can’t really tell how many thousandth your taking off at one time in the video but I guess I’ll just sort of try to match the speed that the hand wheel is moving in auto feed and keep playing with it,, obviously it’s me because you seem to be coming along just fine… and you’re cutting steel…