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Hey Allen it looks like most everything has been covered but one thing I thought i would mention, without knowing how big your lathe is and it not being really important would to buy a good insertable carbide cutting tool and match the insert grade for the application that it calls for, example would be to use a sharp tool with positive rake for soft materials such as aluminum or 1018 stuff that kind of machines like pink eraser, then an insert with a negative rake for harder materials or for an interupted cut something that requires more toughness rather than sharpness and when you get a good tool with a rigid setup close to the chuck and everything locked down apply a good cutting oil not coolant and when you start to push in feed it and i mean feed it I have a precision mathews 1340T I part 4140 heat treat 360 rpm .006 ipm feed and don't think twice about it. Good luck and keep banging away you will eventually get it
Justin Bowerman
JB Enterprise
07 ffl in central CA.
Justin Bowerman
JB Enterprise
07 ffl in central CA.