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Clamping and centring it will be a nightmare to start with, even with a four jaw, and the lips left from the edges and hinge will almost definitely get caught on the tungstun carbide tooling tip leading to:
a. Piece coming out of lathe at high speed and ripping someones head off.
b. Snapping carbide tip, which launches into someones eye.
Both these options will result in FUBAR'ed clamp, which isn't really the name of the game. TIG'ing it shut could work, but would fuck the finish of the clamp. Also, let's not forget what happened the last time we lathe'd something for Neil, poor old @moth lost his head, not even metaphorically.
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