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Louis Ohland Louis Ohland is offline
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Default Lead angle for boring bar?

spaco wrote:
Why do you ask?
Should an insert on a boring bar be neutral?


There are bars with negative, neutral, and positive (best I can
understand the drawings/photos) angles. What seems to be sensible is a
bar with the insert at 0 degrees (horizontal) when mounted.