How to Turn Brass Parts on a CNC Machine

If you are looking for a way to turn brass parts at home, this is the right article for you. I am writing this blog to share with you a unique method of turning brass parts from a cnc machine. For the first time, you can turn custom brass parts like handles, candle holders, and etc at home using an affordable cnc machine and no special tools

This post will show you how it's done using a small CNC machine which can be easily purchased online in few minutes. All we need is some free time, a drill press and some basic knowledge about how to use it

All you need is some basic drilling skills and practice on your own before actually making any project with the help of this guide. The process is not complicated at all but it does require some patience as well as proper understanding of how these machines work so that we can get the best results from them in terms of quality and accuracy.

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CNC Brass Machining

CNC Brass Machining has very useful properties to produce metal parts.

Brass is soft and easy-machining material for machining components. It is common and popular material for different industries by CNC machining process.

CNC machining brass parts begin as a raw piece of metal which is fixed on cnc machine and starting turning or milling on it to create a desired shape or object.

In this process, a cutter removes brass from raw material into a perfect work-piece, its machining speed is much faster than other hard materials

Benefits of CNC Brass Machining

1/ CNC Machining Brass Parts are widely used in many fields, supporting very good functions

2/ CNC Machining Brass Parts are soft and tight in sealing function, suitable for many sealing structure

3/ Brass is easy for cutting and machining, its production efficiency is much higher than steel series

4/ Good propriety for forging or casting

5/ Heat transferring function very good, high resistance, rust proof, long durable using

6/ Easy for surface finishing treatment, electroplating is commonly used on brass parts

Composition And Property of CNC Machining Brass

Brass Property	Alloy Type	Content	Melting Point	Hardness	Tensile Strength	Density
Brass Property	Binary	Copper & Zinc	900-940 °C	HB80-110	315 MPa	8.53 g/cm3

Common Materials Code of CNC Machining Brass

Brass Alloy	Workable Processes	Surface Finishing for Brass Parts	Materials Code
	CNC Turning, CNC Milling, CNC Drilling, Molding, Forging, Fabrication, Welding, etc.	Passivation, Anodizing, Plating, Chemical Polishing, etc.	Brass 3600
			Brass 2600
			Bearing Bronze
			Beryllium Bronze
			other more Brass Alloy

Asianstar: Professional CNC Machining Supplier

From year of 2005, Asianstar Company establish the CNC Machining Factory in Guangdong Province, China.
We mostly provide CNC Turning, Milling, Drilling, Grinding, and Multi Machining processes service on various materials.
With the Belief of becoming a key supplier in the supply-chain of Precision Components, we strictly control our product quality, keep high precision on our components production, buildup the whole-process QC System and submit the satisfaction for every order.
By long term development, we have buildup partnership with world-wide clients, supporting our partners in Designing, Optimizing, Producing and Testing on each type of components.

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