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i agree you'll be fine until your comfortable with higher speed/feed, the adverse affects are not to your machine, but your tooling, stainless is the one material that may really be an issue to both the tool and the material, because you can work harden SS by taking too light a cut, then the next cut has to be deep enough to get below the hardened surface. forget all the speed feed crap, focus on chip load, chip load is what is gonna keep your milling cutters sharp, with a slow rpm but the right feed to keep the chip load optimal will prolong tool life until your comfortable with bringing rpm up as well as the feed to match and keep the correct chip load.
keeping the correct chip load is what is going to take the heat outta the work piece with the chip, and therefore keeps the tool cooler....
keeping the correct chip load is what is going to take the heat outta the work piece with the chip, and therefore keeps the tool cooler....