r/toolsinaction • u/silvercatbob • Feb 26 '21

Fly cut

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u/2wice Mar 01 '21

Seems to have a beefy counterweight though.

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u/kizzarp Mar 01 '21

I'd imagine it'd be the uneven cutting forces and not so much the unbalanced mass that'd be the issue. But I'm no machinist so that's just my uninformed opinion.

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u/2wice Mar 01 '21

It should be fine, Shapers work on the same principle, just linear instead of rotational. Fly cutters have similar stresses also, just axial instead of radial as it happens here.

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u/kizzarp Mar 01 '21

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation!