Let's See Your Mill

[Sunset Machine]

Holy cow. After making a bucket full of CRS chips I'm wishing I'd have sprung for a wider cutter. The 1-1/2HP motor barely got warm and the machine was happy. But so long on the stool for me - a 16 hour cut time with a 3/8" wide cutter. A 5/8" cutter would do it in 10, a 1" would be an afternoon, but I don't know how much the old mill will take and the cutters are expensive. The dribble of oil managed to keep the smoke away (these things originally came with a oil can mounted on a little peg as a "coolant system"). I'm running it at a sane speed, hoping to keep the cutter sharp (so far, so good). It's really easy to get blue chips spinning a 6" diameter cutter.

I've spent $50 on cutting oil for this job so far, most of it still in the chips (the rest is on me and the floor). Need to rig up an extractor of some sort, don't suppose anyone here has any ideas...? Some sort of spinner I suppose, been eyeballing the wife's washing machine.