Originally Posted by
cobrakai
Wait I'm confused. Are you saying I should trust their recommendations because they are the manufacturer and know what they're talking about, or there's a lot of marketing BS because they're trying to sell tools?
Now FYI, maybe I'm overcomplicating this for myself. Brian's talking about running 3200 pieces of something, while I on the other hand are dealing with maybe 20 or 30 of something. As such I'm only using a few tools and they will last quite a while before wearing out. Unless of course I snap them off
Tool salesman are trying to sell tou tooling based on data they have collected over the years. What they don't realize is the data they are passing to you is for applications that work great IF you have a 20 HP machine. They never have a good answer for the folks like us who only have 1.5 HP to work with.
Your salesman will tell you "oh yeah, you can make a 1/2 inch wide slot a full inch deep in one pass with his end mill. There is no effing way you're going to do that on a Tormach.
You can buy GOOD PARTS or you can buy CHEAP PARTS, but you can't buy GOOD CHEAP PARTS.