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Hello All New here.

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Hello to all the metal workers, I am new on here and not so new to metal working. Not good at it thou. Had a Bridgeport mill
i got 50 years ago. Was young and really dumb, wanted to cut a plate and just could not figure on how to hold it down and being in a hurry I thought I could hold it and mill it. WRONG... well after 55 stitches and two surgeries I wont do that again.
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Hey dash9 ! Welcome to the Board! I'm very sorry for that serious injury but you will find that other things have/can happen with equal or worse consequences.
Anyway, glad you are here. You could probably spend a month just reading earlier posts. The search engine works fine for specific areas of interest.
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I regret using a 3/8" carbide end mill to clean my ears.

Welcome to the forum.
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Indeed welcome, Dash9.
At one point, I thought I could hold a piece of brass plate while drilling a hole in it. Not a good idea, but didn't end up as badly as your experience.
Steve: Hopefully the mill wasn't running... :roll:
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SteveHGraham wrote:I regret using a 3/8" carbide end mill to clean my ears.
Anyone with the least bit of understanding should know that ears are best cleaned with a 1" HSS aluminum cutting end mill.

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Harold_V wrote:
SteveHGraham wrote:I regret using a 3/8" carbide end mill to clean my ears.
Anyone with the least bit of understanding should know that ears are best cleaned with a 1" HSS aluminum cutting end mill.

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This getting funny. I knew this older guy who was a serious crafts man and carpenter. During a conversation would whip out his truck keys and ream out his ears. I hadn't seen that before. When the truck started, it became eerie.
Like I said, he was serious but keen sense of humor. :)
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Harold can never resist showing off.
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Who here hasn't, at least once, tried drilling a hole, freehand, in a sheet of something, only to have the bit 'grab', turning that previously innocuous bit of metal into a spinning, finger hungry, virtual knife blade?

Who, me? Nah...

Postscript: I do still have all my digits (knock wood...)
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Heh! Steve's comment about me showing off. If that was my intent, I'd have suggested a 1½" rougher end mill. It is my opinion that, for Steve, the 1" end mill would be a good fit. :P

Holding things by hand to drill holes. Done it most of my life, and, for the most part, I have escaped without issue. However, I can certainly recall the time I was doing a home job (working at Sperry) having to open up a pre-drilled hole in a brass base plate for a model engine I was building.

Need I say more?

I will comment that I escaped serious injury, but drilling in brass without holding the item securely is a huge mistake!

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Lately I've had good results with the blowgun.
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Dash9:
Welcome. (again)
You've now met some of this Board's Main Characters.
You get the idea.
But they DO offer some of the best advice available, despite the ear-cleaning stuff.
Jump in and enjoy the Folks and Knowledge here. Priceless!
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