jordhandson
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Love it. Did you find the pulley quite gummy to machine and prone to surface tearing?
Hi Pete, as this is the first time turning ally, I don’t think I am the right person to say whether it was gummy or not, it produced some good swarf,
I don’t know if you can tell by that, the finish wasn't to bad,
probably the feed was a bit fast, it sanded well. I have only turned steel, and after trying to turn that piece of ram steel, last week, this ally block was like cutting through cheese.
Thinking about it, I did have to clean the insert off a couple of times, so I suppose you could say gummy is a good description. I use this tool and new inserts.
When turning it I did find a bit of a hole in the ally block luckily it stopped before the part I needed.
This happened I think has something to do with the gassing, I will need to see a few more melting videos, to see where I went wrong, probably timing. I have a bigger lump to turn as well,
I am hoping there are no holes in it inside, I wont know till I turn it, but heyho still a lot to learn.
Cheers
Jord