When milling aluminum is there a good starting point when it comes to depth per pass? With wood I usually go 4 mm per pass and that works fine for me but I would figure with aluminum you would need a smaller bite to not bog down the motors or break the bit.
Also for extra points. Anyone ever mill sheet steel on their machine? If so, same question applies.
Im shocked to see you do 4mm per pass with wood. Maybe I am just being overly conservative but I am using 1mm mostly with 1.5mm on my 1/4 bits in wood.
I’m assuming that when milling aluminum it’d be smart to change my stepover. I use the full end mill width when milling wood. But maybe half that for aluminum would yield better results.