2 Flute End Mill

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3/8" Carbide Ball Nose End Mill, 2 flutes, 1.125" LOC, AlCrN Coated

80137745Running out of stock

CA$32.54

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3 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, LOC 6 mm

80151791Made to order

CA$12.01

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6 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, LOC 12 mm

80147227Made to order

CA$21.94

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3/8" Carbide Square End Mill, 2 flutes, 1.125" LOC, Uncoated

80137792Out of stock

CA$29.55

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1/2" Carbide Ball Nose End Mill, 2 flutes, 1.0" LOC, AlCrN Coated

80137747Out of stock

CA$50.89

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1/8" Carbide Square End Mill, 2 flutes, 0.5" LOC, Uncoated

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1/8" Carbide Ball Nose End Mill, 2 flutes, 0.5" LOC, AlCrN Coated

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3 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Flat, Standard length, For N materials, Uncoated, Helix angle 45 degree, LOC 25 mm

EM356-2TL-030Archive

4 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Flat, Standard length, For N materials, Uncoated, Helix angle 45 degree, LOC 12 mm

EM356-2TL-040Archive

1.5 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Flat, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 35 degree, LOC 4 mm

EM311-2TL-015Archive

2.5 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Flat, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 35 degree, LOC 8 mm

EM311-2TL-025Archive

3 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Flat, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 35 degree, LOC 8 mm

EM311-2TL-030Archive

4 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Flat, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 35 degree, LOC 12 mm

EM311-2TL-040Archive

2 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, H materials, TiSiAlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 4 mm

EM281-2WL-020Archive

3 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, H materials, TiSiAlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 6 mm

EM281-2WL-030Archive

4 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, H materials, TiSiAlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 8 mm

EM281-2WL-040Archive

1.5 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 3 mm

EM311-2WL-015Archive

2.5 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 5 mm

EM311-2WL-025Archive

4 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Standard length, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 8 mm

EM311-2WL-040Archive

1/4" Carbide Square End Mill, 2 flutes, 0.75" LOC, Uncoated

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2 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Long, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 4 mm

EM311-2WS-020Archive

3 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Long, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 6 mm

EM311-2WS-030Archive

4 mm Carbide End Mill, 2 Flutes, Ball Nose, Long, For P, M, K materials, AlCrN coated, Helix angle 30 degree, LOC 8 mm

EM311-2WS-040Archive

5/16" Carbide Ball Nose End Mill, 2 flutes, 1.125" LOC, AlCrN Coated

80137750Archive

2 Flute End Mills

Two flutes exist for one reason: chip room. In aluminum, brass, copper and most plastics the chip comes off thick and sticky, and if it cannot get out of the cut it gets recut - which welds material to the edge, spikes the cutting force and ends the tool. Two flutes give each chip roughly twice the space to leave that four flutes do.

The range below covers 2-flute cutters in square, corner radius and ball nose profiles across the diameters we stock, coated and uncoated. Details are on each product page.

What two flutes cost you

Chip room is not free. Cutting two deep valleys into the tool leaves a smaller core, and the core is what carries the torsion and resists bending. A 2-flute cutter is measurably less rigid than a 4-flute tool of the same diameter, and it has half as many edges sharing the load.

That is the whole trade. Two flutes are not the better tool - they are the tool that wins when chip evacuation is the binding constraint, and the wrong one when it is not.

The feed rate mistake

Feed rate is spindle speed multiplied by chip load per tooth multiplied by the number of teeth. The number of teeth is in there, and people forget it.

Swap a 4-flute cutter for a 2-flute at the same rpm and the same chip load, and your feed rate halves. The 2-flute tool is not slower by nature - it is slower if you run it that way. The speed comes back because two flutes tolerate a much larger chip load in aluminum: a 1/4" tool at 12,000 rpm and 0.002" per tooth gives 48 in/min on two flutes, and the same tool run at the chip load two flutes can actually take will beat what four flutes manage in the same material.

If a 2-flute cutter feels slow, the chip load is the thing to look at, not the tool.

Where two flutes win

Full-width slotting. At 100% radial engagement the chip has nowhere sideways to go and evacuation decides everything. This is the classic 2-flute job.

Deep pockets and long flute engagement in aluminum, where chips have to travel the length of the flute to escape.

Gummy material - soft aluminum alloys, copper, some plastics - where a chip that lingers welds itself to the edge rather than falling away.

Plunging and ramping into material, where the chip has to be lifted straight back out of the hole being formed.

Where two flutes stop being the right answer

Adaptive and trochoidal toolpaths. When radial engagement drops to ten or fifteen percent, chip volume per revolution collapses and evacuation stops being the constraint. At that point more flutes simply means more feed at the same chip load, and 3-flute or 4-flute aluminum cutters beat 2-flute ones on the same machine. This is why modern aluminum roughing has drifted to three flutes.

2 Flute End Mills

The range below covers 2-flute cutters in square, corner radius and ball nose profiles across the diameters we stock, coated and uncoated. Details are on each product page.

What two flutes cost you

That is the whole trade. Two flutes are not the better tool - they are the tool that wins when chip evacuation is the binding constraint, and the wrong one when it is not.

The feed rate mistake

Feed rate is spindle speed multiplied by chip load per tooth multiplied by the number of teeth. The number of teeth is in there, and people forget it.

If a 2-flute cutter feels slow, the chip load is the thing to look at, not the tool.

Where two flutes win

Full-width slotting. At 100% radial engagement the chip has nowhere sideways to go and evacuation decides everything. This is the classic 2-flute job.

Deep pockets and long flute engagement in aluminum, where chips have to travel the length of the flute to escape.

Gummy material - soft aluminum alloys, copper, some plastics - where a chip that lingers welds itself to the edge rather than falling away.

Plunging and ramping into material, where the chip has to be lifted straight back out of the hole being formed.

Where two flutes stop being the right answer

2 Flute End Mill

2 Flute End Mills

What two flutes cost you

The feed rate mistake

Where two flutes win

Where two flutes stop being the right answer

2 Flute End Mills

What two flutes cost you

The feed rate mistake

Where two flutes win

Where two flutes stop being the right answer

Choosing a 2 flute end mill

Buying 2 Flute End Mills from CNCmarket

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