garyhlucas
Stainless
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2013
- Location
- New Jersey
I did a little PVC turning today on the manual lathe. Chip wrapping drove me nuts! We do most of our round plastic parts on the CNC mill, using a saw on an arbor. Big pile of chips, you can go do something useful while it runs, no problem. So just curious, do you guys that do plastics on a lathe use live tooling for chip control? Seems like roughing ab OD with an endmill would really eliminate the chip wrapping problem. I'm not much of a lathe guy which is why I ask.