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Old 02-10-2017, 10:10 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by RonA View Post
Around $45. I buy quite a bit from MSC. I get decent discounts and their tech people are pretty good. Over the last 5 years I have dropped my tooling costs down by 75-80 percent buy experimenting with different inserts and end mills.
Especially on the lathe. 90%+ of what I do is stainless steel, with lots of welds being machined off. Front sections are 1.375 dia x any where from 2.5 to 9" long and can have as many as 96 welds each. Very hard on insert tools.
That sounds like a nightmare.
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