BTW The TiN coating (Titanium Nitride gold colored) coating used in cutting tools is supposed to have high lubricity. Might be work trying on the pivots.

Jim Hannon

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: meredith lamb 
Reply-To: psn-l@..............
Date:  Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:44:51 -0700

>Hi Charles,
>
>I dug up acouple ~30 year old 1/4" diameter carbide end mills with enough
>shank
>exposure to test such today. I don't have a long carbide "cross rod", so, I
>used
>the same stainless steel cross rod/boom/mass as in other tests.
>
>The carbide is uncoated; i.e., it doesn't have some of the exotic surface
>materials
>as some of todays cabide milling/lathe bits have today. 
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