What Did You Buy Today?

[GrifterGuru]

You have the one on the right, you need the one on the left. I have both, the one on the right I rarely, the one on the left I use all the time for facing.
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@verbotenwhisky

Nice idea, but I would only be repeating a tool. I have a tool, three actually (SCLCR & SDJCR plus a dual ended SCLCR/L*), that I can and do use for facing with, which also allow me to turn stock as well. I wanted the particular tool I purchased because of the fact it was not a repeat of a tool I had already and I want to use all sides of the insert so I do not waste money by disposing of inserts I could otherwise have used.

In actual fact, I would rather not have a "single use only" tool as I doubt I would use it given that most of the regular cutting tools I use can both turn and face. It less about multi-use so much asit is about not wasting money on a single-use type tool I know I will never use.

* This dual ended tool can be used either on the left or the front of the tool post. It can also carry two different insert types making it exceptionally useful and I can still turn or face off with it.

 

[verbotenwhisky]

@verbotenwhisky

Nice idea, but I would only be repeating a tool. I have a tool, three actually (SCLCR & SDJCR plus a dual ended SCLCR/L*), that I can and do use for facing with, which also allow me to turn stock as well. I wanted the particular tool I purchased because of the fact it was not a repeat of a tool I had already and I want to use all sides of the insert so I do not waste money by disposing of inserts I could otherwise have used.

In actual fact, I would rather not have a "single use only" tool as I doubt I would use it given that most of the regular cutting tools I use can both turn and face. It less about multi-use so much asit is about not wasting money on a single-use type tool I know I will never use.

* This dual ended tool can be used either on the left or the front of the tool post. It can also carry two different insert types making it exceptionally useful and I can still turn or face off with it.

I pointed that out because the tool you bought isn't very useful but the other tool will allow you to use that same side point on the insert and is very useful....

 

[GrifterGuru]

I pointed that out because the tool you bought isn't very useful but the other tool will allow you to use that same side point on the insert and is very useful....

I can get exactly what I need from the tool I purchased.

I know you think, for your own uses, it is not very useful, but for me, it is extremely useful and will do what I want it to do.

 

[ChazzC]

Decided to drop on one of these SCBCR tools. Fed up of wasting inserts that still had two good cutting edges, yet no tool I could use them on.

Should give me extra value from the CCMT06/CCGT06 inserts I have by giving FOUR useful cutting edges vs the normal two I have been using, since this tool uses the edges that would otherwise never get used.


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I have a “custom” 3/8” version of this A.R. Warner kit:


(The standard 3/8” kit includes a boring bar which I didn’t need.)

Allows use of all sides, comes with T-15 HSS inserts and can be used with equivalent Carbide inserts.

 

[Weldingrod1]

Aw, jeeze! You're gonna make me spend money

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[CJ5Dave]

Walmart had these bifocal safety glasses in the tool section. I usually wear safety glasses for sunglasses when I drive, and I hole the bifocal will let me read the odometer, maps, the phone GPS without changing to reading glasses. I seem to wind up using reading glasses to grind and they are way too small. they had several magnifications, only $5.97. May have been out a while, new to me.

 

[yota]

Walmart had these bifocal safety glasses in the tool section. I usually wear safety glasses for sunglasses when I drive, and I hole the bifocal will let me read the odometer, maps, the phone GPS without changing to reading glasses. I seem to wind up using reading glasses to grind and they are way too small. they had several magnifications, only $5.97. May have been out a while, new to me.

Walmart had these bifocal safety glasses in the tool section. I usually wear safety glasses for sunglasses when I drive, and I hole the bifocal will let me read the odometer, maps, the phone GPS without changing to reading glasses. I seem to wind up using reading glasses to grind and they are way too small. they had several magnifications, only $5.97. May have been out a while, new to me.

I tried these on at walmart. to use the magnifier, you have to look down extremely low, which raises the glasses and exposes you to debris coming in under the bottom of the glasses. using regular safety glasses on the belt grinder, I twice had a spray of metal/belt grit hit my cheek below the glasses, deflect off my cheek, hit the inside of my glasses and ricochet into my eye. both times a trip to the ophthalmologist. second time it was steel which rusted almost immediately and had to be drilled out with an optical burr. I now use a full face shield 95% of the time and my reading glasses fit fine under it.

 

[rwdenney]

Picked up from Dave @mmcmdl today, with a Kurt 6” vise, a Ralmike’s Super Spacer, a set of R8 collets, a Jacob’s 14N, an insert face mill, and a slitting saw arbor. The cleaning and research now begins.

I’ll probably start a new thread on it.

Rick “moved with no mishap” Denney

 

[yota]

Picked up from Dave @mmcmdl today, with a Kurt 6” vise, a Ralmike’s Super Spacer, a set of R8 collets, a Jacob’s 14N, an insert face mill, and a slitting saw arbor. The cleaning and research now begins.

I’ll probably start a new thread on it.

Rick “moved with no mishap” Denney

awesome. love the old school DRO.

 

[IHinIN]

Congrats on the Bridgeport, Rick.
I have that same old Mitutoyo DRO on my mill. If you figure out how to reverse the direction of the scale readings please share. I believe both X and Y read backwards on mine.