09-24-2012, 01:12 PM
Hello Wong,
Yes I suppose you could call it brittle, but brittle means stiff and stiff is ideal for this job, If you drop a piece from 3 or 4 feet onto concrete it will break, but so will the lathe.
If by Korian you mean reconstituted stone sheet? I have been using a white piece as a bench top for my mobile work station for about a year now, I have even used it as a makeshift surface plate for scribing lines when marking out on non critical jobs, which led to me doing some centre punching on it, no chips, no problems at all really, with this new found confidence when I was stripping my tool post grinder bearing cartridge,some more serious hammering was required, so I used a .75Kg ball pein hammer as required to wedge the cradle clamp apart, all done on my white "stone" bench top, still no chips or breakage.
The white stone cuts a lot like the granite bench top sheeting does, with a stone disc on an angle grinder so I figure it's properties are a lot like Granite.
If I were mounting a Lathe on a new base tomorrow and I was aiming for the best possible setup, I would definitely be using granite , no question at all.
I hope this helps.
regards
Rick
Yes I suppose you could call it brittle, but brittle means stiff and stiff is ideal for this job, If you drop a piece from 3 or 4 feet onto concrete it will break, but so will the lathe.
If by Korian you mean reconstituted stone sheet? I have been using a white piece as a bench top for my mobile work station for about a year now, I have even used it as a makeshift surface plate for scribing lines when marking out on non critical jobs, which led to me doing some centre punching on it, no chips, no problems at all really, with this new found confidence when I was stripping my tool post grinder bearing cartridge,some more serious hammering was required, so I used a .75Kg ball pein hammer as required to wedge the cradle clamp apart, all done on my white "stone" bench top, still no chips or breakage.
The white stone cuts a lot like the granite bench top sheeting does, with a stone disc on an angle grinder so I figure it's properties are a lot like Granite.
If I were mounting a Lathe on a new base tomorrow and I was aiming for the best possible setup, I would definitely be using granite , no question at all.
I hope this helps.
regards
Rick
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