Dial Indicator & Boring Bars from Shars

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harrzack

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I've been learning how bad the low cost brazed carbide boring bars are (incorrectly ground) and was looking for indexable carbide - but saw these C12 babies and went for them. Now in hand, I half fear they are ground as badly as the brazed bars (not totally confirmed yet) but at least I can grind them.

Def take a look at their dial indicator! There is a video there of a fellow running accuracy test on the Shars and other top names - and it came out with FLYING colors - for $11!


Dial Indicator: http://bit.ly/2p9GwO5


Boring bars: http://bit.ly/2p9OmXU
 
(I'm not advocating Shars, just my personal experience).
Since the close of Enco I shop around a lot but seem to be using Shars as a "go-to" supplier (and usually the "Shars") brand. I got a bigger lathe last fall and have been purchasing a bunch of new tooling (QCTP, tool holders, HSS blanks, indicators & holders, etc).
For my home hobby shop I've been happy with quality, price & service. I have several Shars dial indicators & no problems.
 
Yes - Shars fairly good, but you do have to check carefully. Also - they have a store on feeBay called "discount_machine". Some times prices are a tad higher - but often better. Check both!

Another nicety of the Shars site is the great photos and dimensions of their various products. Not a shill - just happy buyer!
 
harrzack said:
I've been learning how bad the low cost brazed carbide boring bars are (incorrectly ground) and was looking for indexable carbide - but saw these C12 babies and went for them. Now in hand, I half fear they are ground as badly as the brazed bars (not totally confirmed yet) but at least I can grind them.

Boring bars: http://bit.ly/2p9OmXU
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The bars are listed as M42, which is HSS/Co, not carbide. Am I missing something?
 
I have a purchased several items from Shars, and they have been ok, But I am not expert, but for my low level needs they work, Also have a few old high quality tools aslo that I have used for my fine small works.
And some of my cheeper indicators were more than that.
 
mikey said:
The bars are listed as M42, which is HSS/Co, not carbide. Am I missing something?
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mikey - I contacted Shars about that, and as expected the 'carbide' is a typo. I'm still not sure if they are ground correctly though...
 
I have a shars 3 jaw scroll chuck for my south bend, I'll probably buy another one, a 4 jaw scroll chuck. I do have one dial indicator gage from them that works fine. The quality of the stuff I have gotten from them isn't bad, allows me to by more. I think a set of r8 collets from them will be purchased too.
 
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