On Jul 31, 3:55 am, joel wrote:
trying to figure out where I'm going wrong...
.

I'm ripping my hair out on this. aluminum, steel, etc. seems to have the
same effect.

help?

--Joel

Lots of good advice from others, but no one mentioned that the tool
needs to be slightly above center when boring as opposed to slightly
below center when turning on the outside of a bar. I expect you know
this, but maybe someone new to machining will read this some day and
benefit.


Dan