Originally Posted by
bking1836
Others with more experience will hopefully weigh in, but 8ips with .1" bites seems like too fast and too deep, especially for something hard like resin. When I surface hardwoods with the Amana rc-2551 (similar, just larger), I tend to run 3-4ips at .05" bites. Epoxy is both harder and more brittle...Also, if your spindle is even a little out of square, you're going to end up digging even deeper than your .1" on the edges, and that might account for the chipping pattern that you're experiencing.