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Can somebody please explain what relief amount at the end of cut in a grooving operation on lathe is?

Somanna
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A groove will have a very slight internal radius in its corner, but if this is undesirable, then a relief grooving tool is used to remove this material. The relief grooving tool comes in at 45 Deg to cut as shown:

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Jonathan R Swift
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