Maintain steady advance of cross-slide<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nFinishing the Parting Cut<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Keep advancing the tool until it reaches the center of the workpiece. As you get close, the workpiece is suspendend by a thin stalk of metal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be careful: if the workpiece extends from the chuck more than a few times its diameter, the end of the workpiece can start to swing in a dangerous arc. As you get near the center, you may need to slow down the chuck speed to keep things safe. If you notice the workpiece starting to wobble, stop the lathe and move the workpiece back and forth by hand to break it free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The end of the workpiece that you cut off will generally have a pretty rough finish and a little stalk of metal protruding from the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\nOne limitation of parting tools is the diameter of the work that can be parted. The tool illustrated here is a little under 3\/8″ long and can part off work up to 3\/4″ in diameter. In the previous picture you can see that the edge of the work is rounded because it was rubbing up against the shoulder of the cutting tool. If you make the tip of the tool much longer than about 1\/2″ it starts to get too limber and will easily break off. So on a small lathe like this, the largest diameter work that you can part off is probably around 1″. To cut off bigger work, you can use a small hacksaw while turning the work at low speed in the lathe. Even better, if you have a metal-cutting bandsaw, use it to cut off the work. I nearly always use the bandsaw for work larger than 1\/2″ diameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final step it to mount this piece in the chuck and make a facing cut to clean up the end. One problem with this step is that the chuck jaws can mar the finished workpiece. If you look carefully at the next picture you can actually see the imprint of the chuck jaws. To avoid this, you could wrap the workpiece in a thin strip of emory paper, or similar protective material, before clamping it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Should You Know about Parting Tools and Parting Operation Parting is to insert a blade like tool directly into the workpiece and cut off the workpiece with a certain length. It is usually used to remove the finished end of the workpiece from the bar in the chuck. Other uses include cutting the head…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/\u56fe\u72471-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meetyoucarbide.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}