Originally Posted by tobyaxis  If your trying to decide which one to buy for an application that will help others to share their thoughts to help you get what you need. |
Right now im just trying to think open minded. I've been in the industry for only 6 years and consider myself a forever student in this vast industry. Lately there's been a salesmen buzzing in the boss's boss's ear hyping up indexibles, suggesting we switch all of our solid tooling to iscar inserts.
I usually stick to indexible ( sandvik ) inserts on our lathes for steel and stainless, our mill for doing steel really really lacks rigidity on the fixture, so i've got better results here with solid endmills ( pct-cutters powder metal endmills ), but still stick to indexible's for drilling. In our aluminum department we have all milling machines, here i keep all solid tooling, partly because it's only aluminum, partly because the operators in this department start at nearly minumum wage ( you get what you pay for ) im affraid of breaking expensive insert holders due to operators not keeping an eye on tooling.
Are products are simple, seamless pressure vessels, just port & tap ( threadmill ) operation on the cnc machines, not really much too it. I dont like the idea of switching everything to indexibles, but like to think open minded, of coarse the salesman promises the world and say's there the best but... lets face it, he's a salesmen.
So i got curious on others opinions on things, hince the start of this thread