Hi Irving

I'm struggling here on the Lathe,basically I'm having trouble parting-off...the lathe judders and for the life of me can't understand why I'ts proving difficult to part-off?

Last nightI set the gibs as they were a bit loose,today I got some new tooling and blanks,I've tried parting-off at different speeds,the tool is marginally belowthe center...I used the live center to set the tool up.

Stainless Steel bar,had to cut the workpiece of with a grinder :lol:..it ain't funny:cry:

Any pointers as to whats wrong?