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... nickel. Tungsten and chromium in particular give the steel the property of retaining its cutting ability under very high speeds or heat. Cutting Speed. — Cutting speed is the velocity with which a cutting tool engages the work and is always given...

Machine-shop Mathematics - Page 9
by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith, Herbert Druery Harper - 1922 - 162 pages
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Shop Problems in Mathematics

William Edwin Breckenridge, Samuel Foster Mersereau, Charles Frederick Moore - Machine-shop practice - 1910 - 296 pages

...its speed. 59. Cutting speed. The term " cutting " or " surface " speed in connection with a lathe means the number of linear feet measured on the surface of the work that passes the edge of a cutting tool in one minute. 60. Rule for cutting speed. Multiply the number...

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