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...which photo you are referring to with regards to dust? With the plain S&F cutter or shell mill cutter?
Brendan, I'm not sure why you are having a job cranking the handle, assuming 0.100" pitch on your lead screw one turn per second is 6" which should be easy enough to manage.
Quote from: Brendon M on December 17, 2022, 12:33:56 PM...which photo you are referring to with regards to dust? With the plain S&F cutter or shell mill cutter?The shell mill - Andrew
try using narrow side and face cutters 1/4" does not load the machine as much .think of the width as the depth of cut on the lathe if the cut can be deep enough to have teeth in contact and so load on the machine all the time.if you use the lowest speed the cutters will last longer .when you feed buy hand you will feel how it is cutting and you will be surprised how much feed you can use if more teeth are in contact and cutting is constant.your machine is light and low power but will work well with narrow smaller cutters slitting saws that are narrow are much easier to drive for cutting slots the smaller side and face cutters are easier too.helical teeth help with sallower cuts.The larger wider cutters were more suited to use on much larger heavy machines .
That might end up being the answer for the straight tooth cutters however this same machine has no problem with staggered tooth cutters almost as wide, and Hercus only list a max diameter on the cutters, so I presumed the limit of DOC is the 1HP for each cubic inch of steel removed. In other words.