Finally got the swing right on the old 8-inch cutterhead after a month of fighting it.

I had to choose between running it at 12 RPM with a high load or dropping to 9 RPM and accepting slower progress, and going slower actually let me chew through the clay shelf without a single stall last Friday.

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charles3261mo ago

Yeah, I had the same fight with a stubborn seam last year. Ended up backing my feed rate way down and just letting the machine grumble through it at its own pace. That slow, steady pressure got it done where forcing it just dug me a deeper hole.

olivias881mo ago

Wait, you were running it at 12 RPM before? That's wild. I can't believe it didn't just shake itself apart. My old rig would have thrown a bearing in five minutes trying to push that hard into clay. Slowing down is the only thing that works sometimes, even if it feels wrong.