"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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I trashed the first end mill I used, then learned not to push them so
hard.

The operator seems very open to advice. I learned the essentials of
machining by working in factories and much more by taking night
classes at the Voc-Tech. The first shaft I needed to thread cost me
$40 in tuition to get time on a good lathe.

***I am on a waiting list of the local community college if, maybe,
sometimes, before I die, they decide to put on a machining course...