Machining delivers what cutting alone cannot: grooves, pockets, seats for fittings, chamfered edges and flat, square faces. The part leaves the mill ready to install.
Lead is a soft, ductile metal, so machining it easily leads to a clogged cutting edge, burrs and a distorted part. It calls for sharp tools of the right geometry, carefully chosen feed rates and efficient chip evacuation.
We have worked with this material for years and set the machining parameters so that the edge comes out clean and the dimension stays repeatable, even on thin walls.
If you need a flat blank of any contour, waterjet cutting is faster and cheaper, and for plain rectangular formats, cutting to size. We use milling where the part needs a machined face, a groove, a seat or a held tolerance on thickness.
The type of material, the thickness and the dimensions are enough. If you need a non-standard shape, send a drawing - we accept .dxf files and dimensioned sketches.