[modeleng] Re: Replacable Tips
- From: "Richard Gays" <Richard.Gays@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:24:31 +0100
If this information from the dark ages is true, how ome carbide tool bits
are used on some milling cutters?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Messer" <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Replacable Tips
> Gentlemen, I think I read someplace, back in the Dark
> Ages, that Carbide tool bits would NOT stand up to
> intermittent cuts at all and would chip badly when
> used for such operations.
>
> Al Messer
>
> --- KJones9154@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 18/10/2005 09:41:57 GMT Standard
> > Time,
> > clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > > So now the moral of this story is beware of Show
> > Bargains as the actual
> > > tips in the box judging from the first ones
> > perfomance are definitely not
> > > Sandvik.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Cliff,
> > Your experience is interesting to me.
> > I also purchased a set of tipped tools from a well
> > known model engineering
> > supplier but I have been very disappointed with
> > them.
> > The tips are very sensitive to intermittent shocks
> > such as when turning a
> > round from an irregular shaped blank.
> > Out of a set of 5 tools, each with a 3 sided
> > replaceable tip, almost all of
> > the cutting edges have chipped off and I can no
> > longer use them. I know that I
> > could purchase more tips at approx. 3.50UKP each but
> > it seems pointless when I
> > can make a piece of HSS last for months.
> > Being very much a beginner at this turning lark I
> > assumed that I was doing
> > something wrong, but perhaps the only thing that I
> > have got wrong trying to do
> > the job on the cheap.
> > Regards Ken Jones in Sunny Berkshire.
> >
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