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Vulcan
 
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Take light cuts. I can't emphasize that enough.
I watched my boss blow up a wheel and take out a wall when feeding
around .010" on tool steel gear cutter bits. Don't force it. If the
wheel starts slowing down you are hogging off too much, reduce down
feed or cross feed or both. Oh yeah, never start to wipe off the water
on the magnetic table until the wheel has -completly- stopped. I lost
a couple of knuckle tops that way.
Your machine probably has a manual table feed so going too fast won't
be too much of a problem. The hydraulic table feeds can really force
things and the wheels can't take much of that.
Best of luck with it. 73 Gary