Using wood router bits on the Mini Lathe

[Guy Marsden]

yes, as a an experienced woodworker, I use all my woodworking machines on aluminum routinely. chop saw, table saw, router, etc. I don't use WD-40 on those machines so I don't contaminate my wood though. As you could see in my video though I was using a lot of WD-40 on that router bit. I'm still not sure what speed to use, so I was running around 1500 RPM but some people said I should go much slower, since it's not the way the bit was designed to be used it's hard to figure out speeds and feeds. Since the bit is not spinning and there's a lot of surface contact, my intuition said spin the lathe fast.