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Jim Wilkins Jim Wilkins is offline
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Default Lathe Chip Shield?

On Jun 16, 6:42*pm, (Doug White) wrote:
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As long as the radius is small enough to avoid extending past the bed in
front (which could be tricky), a curve one might work better than my flat
one. *I don't want to wear gloves for safety reasons, but I haven't come
up with a fix for this issue yet.

Doug White


The shield doesn't have to be curved. Three flat pieces joined by bent
aluminum angles would stop chips just as well and be much easier to
custom-fit or change after some use.