So this is how it's done?

[Clueless]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnXhJMA2eTg

 

[savannahashlee]

I have little Cambodian children running mine

 

[IJ.]

A whole heapOscary shit going on in that Vid from a machinist's PoV....

 

[Setheroo]

Crocus cloth, ftw.

 

[Clueless]

I wonder how much metal he took off doing that

 

[Setheroo]

I wonder how much metal he took off doing that

Very very very little. If he was using crocus cloth like recommended for that sort of thing, then all it was doing was polishing. Maybe .0005" - somewhere in that ballpark.