Hot take: Skipping coolant checks on your home CNC mill is asking for trouble.

I learned the hard way when my spindle overheated during a weekend cabinet door project.

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Yeah, like I need my garage to smell like burnt dreams. I turned a nice piece of mahogany into a charcoal briquette once.

miles_jackson93d ago

Actually, charcoal briquettes are usually made from softer woods like pine or sawdust scraps. Mahogany is way too dense and burns way too hot for that. Your garage probably smelled awful (expensive wood smoke has a weird sting to it). That piece was basically just super fancy firewood at that point.