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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] is offline
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Default Design Q: O-rings as wipers? Fuzzy O-rings?

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How does it cut?


Like butter on a saw. Like strings of spiderweb on a lathe!

It's important to take as heavy a cut as you can afford to without
springing the work out of the chuck. This, only because if you take
light cuts, you end up with a rat's nest of 'stringies' that will rapidly
interfere with the work. The heavy cut will produce a chip than can be
readily cleared.

Also, don't expect to take your last cut just moving swarf. All the
polyolefins have a tendency to spring away from the tool tip -- even if
it's razor-sharp of the correct rake. So you must take a deep enough cut
to overcome that resiliancy, and get the tool tip into the work and
cutting. Once in and cutting, the stuff cuts cleanly and easily.

Lloyd