No title for this one! i dont beleive it

GK1918

GK1918

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Every now and then I call it stock time. I am lucky my boatyard friend give me bent shafts mostly
around two inches. I then with power hack saw cut to one foot lengths. Then chuck up in my big guy
then center drill both ends which I know are not centered but close, for I have no target only to take
the woops out. Then to the SB to turn between centers. Now on to i dont believe it. I bought one of
those HF turning sets years ago that just one look I threw em back in the draw. Looks like something
pounded on an anvil in a grass hut and dunked in red paint- dull as a screwdriver. I am an HSS guy
and traditionally old SBends dont like anything but HSS I thought. So I stuck one in and went at it,
and after the red paint wore off snakes peeled off like butter. So im just wondering whats up with
this and the finish is glass and I turned a good .250 off to no dims. this is only for bushing stock.
Its like a 12 piece $6 set. Or perhaps I did something wrong that came out right? I never had luck
with even expensive brazed carbides (on steel) If they are only good for brass so be it. So I wonder
if anyone has got results with this so called junk or I got lucky. sam
 
I have bought the same set and have used them from time to time with no problem. they are what i grab when i need to grind a shaped tool like a snap ring grove. the thin shafts will chatter easy.
steve
 
Thru the years I have aquired numerous brazed carbide bits of different sizes, some are from India, some from China and some from who knows where. Occasionally I grab one and it is total crap but yet another one works so well, and then I am baffled by what the difference might be. However for the cheap price, it does not hurt to keep a few on hand as one never knows when it may get you out of a bind. I also have a habit of everytime I go to HF I pick up one or two sets of their cheap HSS lathe bits. I also purchased two sets of insert type bits and these work well at times and other times not so well, again it is baffling.
 
Let's just say you got lucky. You may get one good bit in the set you may get all good ones. And then again you may get all bad ones. There is no set pattern to those sets. If you got a good one count your blessings.

"Billy G" :whistle:
 
Back when I had a smaller lathe, I had a few sets of those. Im with Bill on the got lucky part. I had a few in the set I gave up on, but they worked ok for some jobs. I had a few work well, and a few that seemd to chip way to easy.

The ones that work for you now are keepers, the ones that dont, well toss them out. Your SB should be able to run carbide tooling, Im sure others do.
 
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