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Hello All, Just got my collets from LMS, just had to try the new lathe out.
I stuck the level on the lathe and it is close, but I have to spend some time doing a more complete leveling.
I was able to take a fairly smooth face off cut, I am using 3/8" indexable carbide tooling.
But when I placed the RH turning tool in and tried to take a few turing cuts, the outcome was not so pretty.
I am turning about 900 RPM, I tried manual feeding and very slow machine feeding cuts were still about the same.
I am attempting to turn .750 aluminum. I had the stock out of the collet just over 1", which is, ok by the rule of thumb of 1.5 tines the diameter.
Here is a pic of the surface of the stock, cutting left lots of ridges, I was taking no more than .010" of a cut.
Any feedback would be welcome.
I stuck the level on the lathe and it is close, but I have to spend some time doing a more complete leveling.
I was able to take a fairly smooth face off cut, I am using 3/8" indexable carbide tooling.
But when I placed the RH turning tool in and tried to take a few turing cuts, the outcome was not so pretty.
I am turning about 900 RPM, I tried manual feeding and very slow machine feeding cuts were still about the same.
I am attempting to turn .750 aluminum. I had the stock out of the collet just over 1", which is, ok by the rule of thumb of 1.5 tines the diameter.
Here is a pic of the surface of the stock, cutting left lots of ridges, I was taking no more than .010" of a cut.
Any feedback would be welcome.