First, welcome to the hobby. I hope you will find it as enjoyable as I do. Great people. Great hobby.

That said, I have included a link below to Charles Kaplan's great article about chip cleaning. A search in the board archives will show you many great threads about chip cleaning as well.

The article is located on the club's web-site, which contains many great resources, including the buyer's guide (which I believe contains the chip cleaning article ). Have fun!

Michael Siskin