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