Carbide Tooling

摘要

If you are a beginner, starting out with manual lathe work, refine your techniques to get good results with HSS tools, then give carbide a try, experiment with cutting conditions. Buy some pre-ground HSS lathe tools to get you started. Import carbide is definitely cost effective and it should cut a lot of metal, because it's so wear resistant. If you can get professional cast-off stuff, all the better. If you are starting out with a manual mill it makes sense to dispense with the HSS stage and get a small carbide insert face mill and some solid carbide end cutting slot mills held in a collet chuck. You will probably still need HSS dovetail cutters and tee-slot cutters and these can be found on the internet. For the romantically inclined 'tungsten' rings are thing. They are actually made of tungsten carbide, are virtually as dense, heavy, as gold and extremely wear resistant. You can contact me by email with your comments, good or bad. mikehaughton@btinternet.com. Remember to recycle your used carbide!