KC2IXE
Flashaholic*
First, the trip up was a disaster - the last 1.5 miles on rt91 took 3+ hours due to a water main break
The show was significantly smaller than the last time I went - no outside tent, building 4 totaly closed, building 1 part empty
Some small swag being given out
Saw some interesting tool room lathes that the budget MIGHT swing, and one rebuilder might have something "interesting" he's going to forward to me
Enco is running a show special Code EASTM9 - good for 10% now till June 30
Centaur Collet and Toolholding is running a 25% off - with coupon - but...
Micro 100 is running a 15% off on solid carbide stuff - call your delaer
Raytoolworks.com is selling Aluminum Soft Jaws for Kurt vises - $16-$18/set, depending - a BUNCH cheaper than the MSC price
Toolmex is running a "free tool with purchase of inserts" - but the number of inserts is fairly high
Ingersol Cutting Tools has some interesting tooling (TopOn series, HiPOSMicro and ChipSurfer lines) that would be good for our bridgeport class stuff
As for ERxx collets - lots and lots of folks making collets, with either .0005 or .0002 runout max. One thing that turns out to be interesting that I learned today - one of the BIGGEST things that effects accuracy on an ERxx collet system is the NUT - there are folks that make custom nuts
Saw the Mach-1 quick change system - quite interesting, available on a show special for $1500, a tad out of my range, BUT you don't have to give up serious hogging cuts like some of the other systems (see Tormach)
The show was significantly smaller than the last time I went - no outside tent, building 4 totaly closed, building 1 part empty
Some small swag being given out
Saw some interesting tool room lathes that the budget MIGHT swing, and one rebuilder might have something "interesting" he's going to forward to me
Enco is running a show special Code EASTM9 - good for 10% now till June 30
Centaur Collet and Toolholding is running a 25% off - with coupon - but...
Micro 100 is running a 15% off on solid carbide stuff - call your delaer
Raytoolworks.com is selling Aluminum Soft Jaws for Kurt vises - $16-$18/set, depending - a BUNCH cheaper than the MSC price
Toolmex is running a "free tool with purchase of inserts" - but the number of inserts is fairly high
Ingersol Cutting Tools has some interesting tooling (TopOn series, HiPOSMicro and ChipSurfer lines) that would be good for our bridgeport class stuff
As for ERxx collets - lots and lots of folks making collets, with either .0005 or .0002 runout max. One thing that turns out to be interesting that I learned today - one of the BIGGEST things that effects accuracy on an ERxx collet system is the NUT - there are folks that make custom nuts
Saw the Mach-1 quick change system - quite interesting, available on a show special for $1500, a tad out of my range, BUT you don't have to give up serious hogging cuts like some of the other systems (see Tormach)
