No problem, I was going to make the spindle liner out of 6061 at first but this cost me under $20 for 8 feet of 2" UHMW and I wanted to try Machining the stuff as I heard it sucks
Gonna have to to give that a try. You would be surprised how much a 1 1/4 inch stainless bar can flop around. Did you weld chips to that carbide drill? Lye and some water will eat that off without hurting the carbide.
Yeah, I am still learning the limits of carbide drills. I just saw your video on doing the Lye thing yesterday but I had already left the chip welded drill in sulfuric acid for a day and it did the trick too. I did leave an interesting blueish oxide on the drill... it locked pretty cool
