Also climb milling,will help a lot, if it can be arranged.
S/S is quite a bad conductor of heat, and you want the heat to go into the chips. Either severe flooding, or lots of air. Just a dribble and you will end up with chipped inserts. Don't recut the chips.
Inserts designed for the grade of S/S used will make an enormous difference.
Touchy stuff until you get it all working, then it is easy.
Not too much speed. Aggressive feed and careful with intermittent cuts and approach paths.
Super X3. 3600rpm. Sheridan 6"x24" Lathe + more. Three ways to fix things: The right way, the other way, and maybe your way, which is possibly a faster wrong way.