Turning paxolin

Turning paxolin

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19 April 2018 at 17:17 #25945
Roger Hart
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19 April 2018 at 17:17 #350736
Roger Hart
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Been making a couple of disks from 1/4 inch paxolin. The tool traverses from right to left and as it leaves the left hand side a small amount of delamination takes place. Not serious for this application just not a tidy job. But how do I avoid this happening – turn from each end towards the middle perhaps. Or is there a better way?
19 April 2018 at 17:22 #350738
norman valentine
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You could place a sacrificial piece of wood or maybe metal behind it to support the edge.
19 April 2018 at 17:50 #350743
Jon Gibbs
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I think those are the two ways – back up the piece with another piece of waste stock or cut from both sides to the middle.

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19 April 2018 at 20:00 #350762
MichaelR
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I used a piece of chip board as a backing when turning sections for my traction engine brake blocks in Tufnol. Mike.
21 April 2018 at 10:45 #350969
Ian S C
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The first gear I cut, using a single point fly cutter was a Paxolin (or similar) one, I placed the Paxolin between two 3/16" thick steel discs, and as there was room on the finished job (a water pump), I left the steel parts in place, twenty years on and it's still working ok.

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