[modeleng] Re: Replacable Tips
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:29:40 -0700 (PDT)
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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