Vibration is a fact of life in almost every machining operation. Whether you're milling, drilling, turning, or grinding, vibration can result in chatter that can ruin a part. Fighting chatter has generally been a matter of adding more mass to the machine, but if you're clever about things, chatter reduction can be accomplished electronically, too.
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Originally published on CTE: 2017-10-11
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/news/fighting-machine-tool-chatter-555-timer/
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