[Titaniumboy]

Has anyone recently bought TTS holders or TTS face mills from any of the typical low cost sources? A lot of the old sources mentioned on this forum seem to have gone away with the supply disruptions of the last three years.

[popspipes]

there are listings on ebay for them

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...+er16&_sacat=0

[scott216]

I've had good luck with icarbide.com and prices are great. My orders are delivered pretty quickly, I believe they have a warehouse in California. I think they are on vacation until March 25th. That's what it says on their ebay store, but not their website. They have always been very responsive with email, but recently they haven't responded; I assume it's because they are on vacation. I'd email them after March 25 to confirm they are back and will be processing orders. Search on "TTS" and you'll get all the Tormach stuff which makes it easier to see what they have. They even have ER11 TTS holders.

[Titaniumboy]

Thanks for the responses.

The iCarbide prices seem really good as they are even lower than the eBay ones shipping out of China. $16.99 for an ER20 TTS holder with the ATC groove and $49.99 for a TTS 2” face mill sounds very tempting.

What kind of quality and runout have you seen on the iCarbide stuff?

[scott216]

Quality seems very good. Runout is similar to the Tormach holders.

[kstrauss]

I get "Error establishing a database connection" trying to access their website at https://www.buyustools.com/ and also https://icarbide.com/ Is that the correct URL?

[mcphill]

I get "Error establishing a database connection" trying to access their website at https://www.buyustools.com/ and also https://icarbide.com/ Is that the correct URL?

I'm getting that error too. Worked yesterday.

[RaderSidetrack]

The buyustools.com site is working for me now. Screenshot:
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The icarbide site gives me the same "Error establishing a database connection". I'd say that is likely an error internal to the site. The webserver is 'up', but the database server that feeds the webserver has a problem.

[scott216]

They said they were doing some maintenance. It's working now.

[Titaniumboy]

I was in Irvine California last week and dropped by their warehouse. It was my bad luck to be greeted at the door by a note telling the UPS guy that they would be out of the office for the afternoon. They did have a pile of small boxes sitting by the front door that looked tempting.

I’ve called their phone number several times over the past week but nobody ever answers. I do get treated by a message saying that their voicemail box hasn’t been set up yet.

[scott216]

Try sending an email to Alex Chan, [email protected]