Originally Posted by Mariss Freimanis  Power (that what gets things done) is torque times RPM. I put up the equation, solve the equation for torque, HP, RPM or whatever else you are interested in. It's just simple high school algebra.
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Yea, I know I did quite well in school. (3.8GPA, Full scholarship to both tech school for machining, and college for Mechanical Engineering) I can do the math just fine. My problem is more with the practical understanding. If I run a 3HP manual lathe and it just starts to stall out at 800RPM with a cut we'll call cut X. If I run it at its max of say 1750RPM should it take this cut without much problem? The machines I use at school will chatter and push the part out of the chuck before they'll stall out, but I will be in a machining competition coming up and I was able to stall it out with the cut I mentioned above. Would turning it up some fix that?