Thread: Yesterday's milling effort

Well after milling lemon scented gum for the last 6 saturdays I decided to slab up something softer, a flooded gum. One thing for sure, it's much softer than lemon scented gum.
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This shot shows the degree of washboard. The chain is full comp 30 º top plate and is being converted into 10º - it's about half converted - so still leaves a fair bit of washboard.
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The day itself was a mixed bag. Spent ages doing a bit of a tune up and adjustment to the outboard throttle. Then when I finally stared milling my clutch fell off! Spent 30 minutes looking for the nut in amongst the sawdust. Then restarted milling and it fell off again!!! Gave up and came home because I wanted to torque and loctite it down. The grain in the flooded gum was worth in though.