| 1. | Milling cutters are held in the spindle and rotate on its axis.
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| 2. | The two most common cutting tools are formed milling cutters and cutters with indexable carbide inserts.
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| 3. | Milling cutters may also have extended cutting surfaces on their sides to allow for peripheral milling.
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| 4. | Fly cutters are a type of milling cutter in which one or two tool bits are mounted.
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| 5. | A staggered tooth milling cutter can produce a rectangular groove in the material at varying depths and widths.
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| 6. | A plane milling cutter can produce surfaces similar to a planer but can make varying contours across the material.
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| 7. | Note that a standard endmill with rounded corners can be used instead if a special milling cutter is unavailable.
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| 8. | In milling the corners may be undercut to remove the radius that is usually left by the milling cutter.
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| 9. | There Swasey invented the epicycloidal milling machine for cutting true theoretical curves for the milling cutters used for cutting gears.
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| 10. | The double angle milling cutter can make a wide variety of V shaped cuts with straight surfaces in the material.
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