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Size of a tool (lathe!)
I have sort of worked out the headstock which should spin things as low as
60 rpm. I am kind of stuck with the tooling side: the carriage, crosslide etc. One of the questions I am struggling with is the size of the tooling appropriate for this job (turning disks up to 9" in diameter). Instinctively I feel that a 3/16 tool is not going to cut it (sorry about the pun). But am I right? I have a boxful of 3/16 and 1/4" tools, toolholders with carbide inserts, toolposts and something which I take to be a crosslide of some sort into which all these things fit. They all look rather puny. Would they do a job of truing up the edge of a 9"x 1/4" disk? Would they face it? Or should I design around something more beefy? If so, how much more beefy? -- Michael Koblic, Campbell River, BC |
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