Thats not a bad idea we farm these out to an outside vendor but you did give me an idea maybe load the bearing and electrode into a press (electrode is c17510) and force the electrode to conform to the bearing surface. Maybe aplly certain amount of pressure for a certain lenggth of time.MilesH said:Maybe carry on with the 5/8" and use the ball bearing as a hone?
Oh Ok I think I get it lol. The tooling I was speaking of is an Electrode used in resitence welding My ball spherical radius is 7.938 mm I am trying to come up with the best possible surface contact I can get ( most surface covered) from electrode to ball bearing without having to make a special ball end mill to do the job. Previously we were using a 5/8" ball end mill which is approx 15.875 mm I am trying to decide if it will change my surface contact area enough to go a 16 mm end mill. There are other factors involved of course like the depth that we are inserting the ball mill and the angle we are cutting on the outside of the electrode. So I may have not been asking my question correctly in the first place.
Thanks for all the help. I will still upload the picture to binaries so you can get a look at what I am doing and maybe someone could suggest some type of similation software I could use.