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Mopar151

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5. Tools move @~ 90 fpm,

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 25, 2012, 12:35 AM

Jan 2012

About 1 mph. And you work several feet away from the tool on the big stuff.

Not like today.... chips fly halfway across the shop, so hot they burn into your skin when they hit.

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