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I didn't say bad chips. I said long,continuous chips. If you like long,continuous chips they are not bad. And,with Christmas coming,you can cut the long,spiral chips up,spray them gold,and make icicles to put on your Christmas tree!! We actually did that one time for the museum's Christmas party. But,we used brass.
Don't know if I should say this, but I had a 12 1/2 foot long coiled chip hanging like a garland in my shop. I doubt I'll ever see it again. It was removed with all my stuff after the fire. It was cut on the Hercus 9" lathe, possibly with a tangential tool. Let's not get a competition going. I estimated that, if it could be straightened out without breaking, it would have taken a piece about 118 feet long to wind it up. No machinists were injured in the making of that chip.