Machining brass

[gunboatbay]

In one of the other forums, a member had a problem with stress distortion when he was attempting to mill some strips of brass to thickness for gib strips. In the ensuing discussions, one member contributed this URL:
http://www.brass.org/Publicat/pub117/117-section-5-how-to-make-it-in-brass.pdf
I'm sure all this is well known to experienced machinists, but for the less experienced, there's a lot of good information, so I thought I'd pass it on. The temperature requirements for annealing don't seem very critical and well within the range of a countertop toaster oven.

 

[Twmaster]

Say Gunboat...

Do you have a link to that forum/thread?

TIA!

 

[gunboatbay]

Sure. It starts here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9x20Lathe/message/59740 and goes on for several responses.

 

[Twmaster]

That was very useful. Thank you.

Thm:

 

[ttrikalin]

Thanks gunboatbay -



newbie-friendly information is always appreciated
tom

 

[Twmaster]

I am happy to report that running my cutter almost twice as fast has made a huge improvement. Thanks to all for the tips. I love this forum site!!