[decoycarve]

It always is satisfying when we carve with a good sharp knife and the chips fall. I was working on some parts for the CNC router I am building and was watching the chips fly as I was milling a couple of pieces for it. As I was working I thought darn I'm Power Carving metal. When your setup is good and the cutter is sharp and the finish is almost like a mirror the chips are just as satisfying.

Let the chips fly,
Goody

[rick-in-seattle]

That bracket the mill head is mounted on, is that homemade?

[Thomp]

The biggest thing that impressed me about the machiene shop was how easy it was to change the shape of steel aluminum or brass, solid metals cut with the same ease of cutting wax with the right mchiene,

the thing i hated was turning pumpshafts even under a flood of coolant, and the occasional white hot chip down the front of your shirt....

[rick-in-seattle]

If we are telling Machine Shop stories, here is one of my best.

In 1984 I was operating a large three-spindle mill; so large that I traveled along with it as it cut out parts. One day I was milling the profiles of three 1-1/2� aluminum plates at around 15 inches per minute.
The chips were thick, hot, and flew off the cutters about six feet in a high arc.
So up walks the supervisor and stands alongside the ways, watching the chips fly parallel to the ways.
I yelled down from my cage that he had better move.

He only had time to yell back up “I’ll stand where I want�.
Just then the cutters made the corner, he was covered with a shower hot wet chips.
Each chip was 1-1/2� long and curled into a full circle, sharp as a razor and hot enough to leave a blister.
No, I didn’t laugh at the time, and neither did he.

[Thomp]

Well theres one of them leaves the shop every few years too....

hard headedness? {new word invented here} is the reason they put up the help wanted sign more often than not....

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Nothing wrong with that! He stood where he wanted......he wanted to see what a hot chip looked like!

[whitecree]

Most supervisors don't have the brains of a demented acorn.

I wouldn't have laughed in his face either, but I would have been snickering all the way home and long into the evening.

[decoycarve]

Originally Posted by rick-in-seattle

That bracket the mill head is mounted on, is that homemade?

Yeah,
Poor mans dro.
Goody