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Remounting Jaws

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Twisted Trees:
End of the day you are spinning a potentially flexible bowl, attached by flexible bits of rubber to a cast aluminium plate with lots of holes drilled in it, which may or may not have been dropped onto the floor to cause a few micro cracks in it...

How fast do you want it spinning? ;D

I don't have a rev counter so do it by eye, have almost definitely exceeded the spec. but most likely applying wax not cutting.

Use the tailstock to reduce the risk, and use good judgement, and you should be fine, probably!

George:
Thanks a lot everyone for your replies and advice, I take the point that The Bowler Hatted Woodturner makes about the chisels been sharp which mine are most of the time but 600 rpm still seems a bit slow to me.  As an aside a friend of mine who has just started woodturning has a set of Axminster remounting jaws, however, this speed readout on his lathe is in Hz and not RPM so he ran the lathe at 50Hz.  It wasn't until he found out how to calculate Hz to RPM he found out that he was running his remounting jaws at 3000 rmp!!

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