Thanks, Dave, I truely needed that. One of the casualties was a double end mill cutter I inhereted from my late father. Sad loss. It had done many parts when all of a sudden it started spitting out very hot blue chips and I had not changed anything I was doing that I could tell.
I did have a few situations where the vise was not tight enough, and the part was sucked up in the vise and the depth of cut started getting deeper. But, when I started this project, I though I had enough experience with my equipment to know when something was not right. Wake up call!
Can you recommend a set of mill cutters for general purpose projects like we do, including slots, cleaning out for dovetails, etc.? Should I be getting carbide for roughing and HHS for finishing? Should I be using endmills for squaring/cleaning up stock or should I get a face mill?
I have copied your referred post to Word and saved it. I will now sit in the corner and study it...
Thanks again, Dave.
Chuck in E. TN