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Machining Cast Bronze

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rleete:
I tried doing a skim cut on the inside of the smaller flywheel.  Not very concentric, so it was an inturrupted cut, but it seemed to cut okay.

Haven't done any of the other parts yet.

Bernd:
It's definatly harder than some of the bronze I've turned before. If you do take a bit of a deeper cut it does cut better. I noticed that with the end mill. But it's still harder than hard brass.

So I'll be using angles normally used for brass and carry on. Also I don't think my tool was sharp enough.

Carbide on this small lathe might not work good unless it is of a very sharp edge. So HSS will be used for now. Although one of these days I'm going to have to look through some of those big catalogs and see what I can find in carbide cutting tips.

Bernd

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