{"id":6831,"date":"2014-12-10T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2014-12-09T23:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T07:29:24","slug":"todays-metal-porn-a-tool-cutting-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/todays-metal-porn-a-tool-cutting-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Metal Porn: A Tool Cutting Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned on <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/mwmqEAo\">Imgur <\/a>today:<br \/>\nSlow motion close up of a steel cutting tool<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mwmqEAo-Imgur.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mwmqEAo-Imgur.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6832\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThose little splotchy marks on the metal being cut are grains. The boundaries between grains is where cutting is preferred. Notice how the tool doesn&#8217;t do the cutting, rather the material being cut creates a dead zone in front of the tool and does the cutting, increasing tool life. When this buildup breaks away, a burr is formed. Also, the shavings that are formed during cutting tell a lot about the quality of cut and if the rake angle, speed or feed of the cutting must be altered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned on Imgur today: Slow motion close up of a steel cutting tool Those little splotchy marks on the metal being cut are grains. The boundaries between grains is where cutting is preferred. Notice how the tool doesn&#8217;t do the cutting, rather the material being cut creates a dead zone in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}