3" Face Mill Speed The Home Shop Machinist Machinist's Workshop ...
One place I worked running a CNC mill there was a job we hogged out aluminum with a 3" face mill, indexable carbide. If I recall, we ran it at 3000 RPM (I think that was top speed or close to it for the machine), feed was something like 50 inches/minute, 1/4" depth of cut (full depth of the inserts). Took like two/three seconds at most to make ...