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After owning a 9X20 for about 6 months, and making my share of chips, I ran across a term not seen before. The term "half dead center" was unknown to me until I stumbled over it on a tool sellers website. I did purchase a "dead center" for turning between centers and have come across the situation where I needed to face the "right" end of a shaft when doing so. I have seen that "half dead centers" are quite a bit more costly than the one I bought from Enco, or whomever it was I bought from. My question is, can I use my regular (carbide tipped) dead center and just grind some off the side to expose enough of the shaft end in order to face it? Again, I'm just a newbie, JW