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Default Suitable boring bar for use in sideways hole in boring head?

Louis Ohland wrote:
Machine shakes, RPM is past 500.

That's your problem, the machine doesn't have a back gear,
does it?
When you get up to larger diameters, you need to slow down.
500 RPM at 2.75" diameter is 360 SFPM. Not insanely high
for Aluminum, definitely a problem for steel.

Jon