Does the company you work for sharpen their own endmills & drills?

[neilw20]

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[D.lusty]

Where do you leave your dog when you are out of the house?

[neilw20]

Do you know how to make your dog go WOOF.

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[skullworks]

They complained enough about all the custom form tools I made on the Agie wire EDM - They would really wig out if I had access to a proper tool grinder.

[Big Sky]

The place I work for (in Montana) spends on average $80,000 a month on carbide tooling. They take dull cutters and throw them in a box for recycling. That gave me the idea to start a cutter sharpening company. I bought a Darex 3000 and a Cuttermaster (new). Both machines cost about $9,000 combined. I have did a few jobs for them but politics have gotten in the way. I,m not able to quite my day job,YET. I hope to grow this company and do it full time soon.

Big Sky

[JRoque]

Hello Big Sky. A good way to start that up is to post an ad on this forum. Since your overhead will be lower than most, you can offer resharpening cheaper. If you do that when you get home from work, you can also turn around jobs quickly.

As a home/DIY consumer of cutting tools, I get to break the tools before they really need resharpening. It would be great if you can also work with chipped endmills and drills and give them a second life.

I have hundreds of Harbor Freight reprocessed PCB endmills. These are quality US made tools that are sent to China for "resharpening". Like most of what China does, they simply cut the tip off at a perpendicular angle, ruining any possible down cut feature. If you take these tools and give them a new "nose job" they'd be very useful again. It doesn't have to be too fancy but even a couple of angled cuts at the nose would be great.

Good luck with your new business!

JR