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Cracked blanks =

Blunt drills

Wet wood

Stressed wood

Heat generation through sanding.


Not drills as different drills used

Wet wood, unlikely if it was mallee, most aus burrs that appear over here seem to have been cut around 1870

Stressed wood, not on a burr.

Heat generation???


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