Frank Fusco
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A friend and I are going into a mini-business venture making gunstock, and other, duplications. We both have Terrco 200 Dupli-Carvers with the gunstock extensions. I also have a 200 without the extensions. For gunstocks we need tracer styluses that are slightly over sized from the matching cutter. To get these, I suggested using UHMW, putting a shaft in the back of a piece then machining down to dimension and shape needed. Sounded like a plan. I bought 20 feet of 1" stock. Friend put some on the machine lathe and immediately we had a problem. This stuff does not machine cleanly. Even at the slow speed of a machine lathe it gums up and melts something awful. Truth be known, I had never even seen UHMW before buying this but, from what I had read, believed it was hard as woodpecker lips and highly machinable. We both believe what I got was nylon by mistake. Enneybody here familiar with the characteristics of UHMW? Any ideas what I can do with almost 20 feet of 1" soft white 'stuff'?