Re: A "little" off topic- CHEAP end mills!

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:

> rickchownyk2000 wrote:
>
> >Ok, I know I am going to get my wrist slapped, but darn, these are
> >cheap! (I am the "cheap and free" guy, you know!) I have used
> >many "bargain" endmills from Wholesale tool and they have always

been

> >of good quality. http://www.wttool.com/endmills.html Rick-o-matic
> >
> >
> Ohhhhhh, NOOooooo! I'll bet these things are in blue plastic cases

with

> a paper label, with the size rubber stamped in blue ink! I had

been buying

> overstock, etc. end mills from a couple of outfits with excellent

luck,

> until
> the above-described CRAP started turning up in everybody's sales

flyers.

> The last batch looked like they'd been free-hand sharpened by a

blind

> 90-year
> old guy, and this is giving a bum rap to the blind and aged! These

end

> mills
> lasted a couple minutes each before they started to break down. I

vowed

> "Never again!" I've had much better luck since then buying only M-

42 and

> M-57 Cobalt cutters, which are of much better quality, both

metallurgically

> and in terms of sharpening, and the M-42 lasts 5 times as long as

plain

> HSS in mostly aluminum machining. On sale, these M-42 cutters are

hardly

> any more than the HSS junk (although I don't find them for $1.00)
>
> Do you know WHY WT is selling these at $1.00? Because all the

shops are

> now wise to these crap cutters, and wouldn't pop $1.50 for them!
>
> Jon

ok ok ok ok ok! (I actually heard this post in your own voice!!!)
must have been all the heat in the warehouse at Rolands!

I WILL GO BUY A FEW AND REPORT BACK FRIDAY!!! IF THEY ARE BAD, I'LL
RUN (SHUDDER!!) EMC ON THE RICK-O-MATIC (or at least try it)
I have bought a lot from them and my best deal a few years back were
m-42 overstock that were UNDER a buck a piece. still usin' em! And
be nice to them thar old guys-we will be there someday...... Rick