On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:47:05 -0400, Joseph Gwinn
wrote:
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Instead of machining the face a
little flatter, the whole BXA tool post rotates on the compound, causing the bit
on the BXA-16N to dig a bit deeper.
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Old time machinists books advises (when possible) setting up a
tool for a lathe cut, that it should be arranged such that if
anything shifts the tool swings out of/away from the cut rather
than into the cut.

Lindsay has many reprints of the older texts that are quite
helpful for the home/hobby machinist.
A good place to start for an overview is
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/milne/index.html
and any of these will be helpful
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/milne/index.html

and see my web page
http://mcduffee-associates.us/machin...ning_books.htm

Better luck on the next project, and its a mistake only if you
didn't learn anything...


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).