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kleinbl00  ·  1456 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rings!

Wood chips on metal lathes always smell so delicious... I dunno. The machining industry has this weird sexual fetish for swarf. They put it in vases at trade shows and shoot videos of it and all sortsa dumb shit.





ilex  ·  1456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah they do! I get why swarf looks pretty but people make way too big a deal about it.

Delrin -- what I made the fixtures from -- is fun for roughing cuts; you can get the feed rate up fast enough for it to stop stringing and ball up into tiny chips that shower all over. Also a good way to learn to keep your mouth shut while running the machine.