Broken Parting tool?

Hey y’all sorry for all the machining posts. I am here right now trying to turn off the last two pieces for my project and I put the parting tool on and gently brought it in and immediately knew something was wrong by the feel of the tool to the workpiece. I backed it off, turned off the tool and noticed a chip. A pretty sizeable one at that.

When I came in I noticed there were some aluminum chips on the floor, not a huge mess but perhaps that individual could have done it?

I’m not ruling myself out, but I am pretty cautious with the cutters.

Do we have another one hiding somewhere?

You should be able to find some spare cutters in the gray cabinet behind the Bridgeport Mill.

Is this the lathe parting tool? It uses inserts and I think we have them in the grey cabinet as Rich suggested.

Beware though; that parting tool holder is I think the wrong type for that combination and you have to shim it up in the quick change tool post to get it on center :frowning: