I have a deck of playing cards with a print of a painting on the back called
"Milling Chips". The painting is one of a group made for Kearney and Trecker
but I do not remember the artist right now. Very pretty.
Don Young

"Jon Elson" wrote in message
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"Doug Warner" wrote in message
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How may take a really close look at the swarf they produce?

I was cutting some rings from the face of 6" brass round
http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/Rings.JPG
for a clockmaker / co-worker, and was (easily) impressed by the
variety of forms the cuttings had, from the .063" wide flat sprials,
to dust particles, to wispy fluff.

I decided to take a macro shot of the stuff before disposing of it,
and posted this large (2.7MB) photo to scroll around it.
If your web browser shrinks it to fit the screen, expand it to full
size to see the full range..
http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/Swarf.jpg



That photo would make a very nice Windows desktop wallpaper.
Boy, see what happens when you let an "artist" in the machine
shop! Loses all focus on making the part and starts doing artsy
photographs of the chips! Even in black and white, I would have
recognized that material as brass, though!

Jon