Greetings,
My 13 year old son built Junior Solar Sprint car. The wheels were machined
from black Delrin on the Homier 7x12. We made a new set of lighter wheels
tonight, since he's competing in the Northeast Championship on Sunday. (see
)
The Delrin is wonderful material to machine, except for one annoyance: the
chip comes off as a single, long string. It becomes a big, soft, fuzzy mess
that gets tangled up on the work, the tooling, the live center, the chuck,
etc. It reminds me of poodle fur. We had to stop often to clean off the
fuzz. It's especially annoying when parting off.
Is there anyway to get the chip to break into pieces? Or is it something we
have to live with?
BTW, projects like this are a good way to justify the purchase of machine
tools - "But, dear, it's for the children!"
-Ron
