Bob Engelhardt wrote:

One of the shafts on my rototiller-in-rehab was so badly rusted that I
decide to turn it smooth. I've never been able to get very smooth cuts
on the lathe, but with a file afterwards I've managed to get
smooth-enough. Not this time:


I turned some 1045 last year with a similar mirror finish. Same lathe, same
inserts and I can't get the same results if my life depended on it. May the
force stay with you.


Wes