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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Turning Steel
I bought a piece of hot rolled DOM tube yesterday. The lathe did a fine job of squaring it and boring. I just needed to reduce the feed rate a bit compared to aluminum. I also found that getting the tube exactly square to the chuck mattered more, perhaps because being off-center meant more mass trying to pull itself out of the chuck.
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