From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:vu44rs$vrlu$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   I will soon try making a tool from a scrap of broken rock drill pipe, and   
   see how easy to saw and turn it is.   
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   It wears an HSS bit dull in a few minutes unless the lathe is in back gear.   
   Annealing or tempering in the wood stove to at least 600F when I removed it   
   from the tin can after the fire died down seems to have helped tool bit   
   life.   
      
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