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Karl Townsend Karl Townsend is offline
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Default Lathe question

Most likely, you're dealing with part deflection. It bends away from the
cutter, making it larger the further from the chuck,

Very finely sharpenned and honed tooling helps a lot with this issue. if
you've got it, super high RPM and a light finishing cut help too.

Karl