On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:50:48 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
quickly quoth:

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:35:54 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

Did you clamp the holy **** out of the dash piece first and limit the
downfeed as you were breaking through? Stabbing through into a hunk of
wood might be the coup de grace. Excess movement is the killer there.
DAMHIKT, but I've generally come away without scars.

Yes...it was clamped down on a piece of MDF, flat on the table, and
when it broke..it was about .1 deep into the aluminum. Cutter had
plenty of side and bottom relief, slight hook and I was Gently
handfeeding. Same with the home brew cutter in the boring head. Its
possible I was running too slow...but not enough to cause this I dont
think. Shrug. At no time did I notice any change in sound of the 3
hp motor..IE lugging, and the chips appeared normal for this sort of
tool.

What, precisely, broke?


Shrug... Something turned to ****..Ill beef up the next one.

Drill and screw the scrap piece down next time, too, to make sure it's
secure.


Least my welds held fine G

Welds? Oh, you must have welded the tool together. Carry on.


Gunner


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