Good morning guys,well I thought that while I'm home along I would start on machining my back plate for my 4 jaw chuck to fit my Sears/Atlas lathe.Long story short,I have never really use my lathe other than just playing around so I don't know what I'm doing.I started with turning the OD for the resists that will fit inside the chuck and thats as far as I can go cause I done burned up two of my Arthur Warner tips.Guys me not knowing, but I think the back plate is made out of iron not steel cause of the chips.Anyway I am taking small cuts to work my way to the point of facing the back plate that the chuck will seat on.Guys I have my lathe set at 625 and hand feeding the HSS cutter slowly.Giving the poor information here,can someone see what I'm doing wrong,maybe this is a job for carbide instead of HSS.But I thought taking small passes and slow hand feed all would be good.I was wrong,thanks for suggestions----kroll