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Old 11-18-2009, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by misterroy View Post

They all have problems with snapping parting tools, too much play in the cross-slide?

thanks
Thats pretty common with front mounted blades because the blade wants to dig under the rotating part. Try tightening up the gib screws a little on the cross slide to help in the digging. I went with a rear mount cut off tool to elimanite the digging in. It works sooo much better...Bob
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