basic lathe tooling questions for new lathe

[TOM REED]

(04-07-2012, 05:27 PM)doubleboost Wrote: You need to get them up to orange heat and hold them there for 30 minutes then let them cool in the fire.
A domestic coke fire would do the job
The longer they "soak for the better"
John

I cut mine without annealing with a 1 inch cobalt roughing endmill then used a single flute carbide dovetail cutter boh of which I bought for a reasonable price off e-bay. My RF45 Clone didn't even complain while doing it. Some were 1.5 inch Kennametal some were Sandvic 1.25 inch. I plan to drill + tap them for studs + knurled nuts for adjustment. tom