What's Your Favorite 'Better Than Average' Import Tool Dealer?

[Bob La Londe]

There is some suspicion that zero over write may leave residual magnetism that can still be recovered. I read a paper on it when the zero over write...

[Bob La Londe]

Back in the day of the old MFM hard drives a buddy of mines girlfriend who worked at radio shack erased a hard drive with a VHS bulky eraser. We disassembled...

[Bob La Londe]

I buy most of my stock of carbide for aluminum cutting and some of my steel cutting stuff from Rogue Systems Inc. I buy a fair number of endmills from...

[Bob La Londe]

Integral shank?...

[Bob La Londe]

My electric scissors lifts used a bunch of industrial 6 volt batteries in series. In the past in a pinch I have borrowed the batteries out of my boat...

[Bob La Londe]

I was chatting with a buddy of mine about a stand on (2500 capacity) and he seemed to to think you might be able to run one off a power supply for occasional...

[Bob La Londe]

I've bought a few things from Little Machine shop and overall I agree. They are pretty good....

[Bob La Londe]

For now many of the old Enco products are still available at MSC. The problem with MSC is you need to tell them you just won't buy the stuff at catalog...

[Bob La Londe]

From the R8 Mumbo Jumbo Thread:



I was going to start a thread the other day titled "What's Your Favorite 'Better Than...

[Bob La Londe]

I was going to start a thread the other day titled "What's Your Favorite 'Better Than Average' Import Tool Dealer?" and mention Shar's in the...

[Bob La Londe]

My son installed Rapid Aire plastic aluminum tube in my shop for me, and he just straightened it by hand. Ours did not come on a spool It came in large...

[Bob La Londe]

It feels like its almost Christmas and I feel like an 8 year old. I was waiting on that e-mail before punching the buy button on some other tooling to...

[Bob La Londe]

Yep. That's the one. I agonized over maybe spending twice that for a CNC version, but since it still wouldn't give me quite the envelope I need in a...

[Bob La Londe]

No. I actually have a little bit of r8 tooling, but when I started looking for prices on nt40 it wasn't that bad. I was prepared to go with an nt40 vectrax...

[Bob La Londe]

Okay guys that's enough. Let's get back to bashing me for buying a brand new five horsepower Mill with an R8 instead of a NT40....

[Bob La Londe]

I can't speak to all, but I know that has been my experience with 3/8 corncobs pushing as hard as I dare trying to get the MRR up as much as I can. They...

[Bob La Londe]

Do you have a machine with an R8 spindle? Do you put every tool in an R8 collet or do you use tool holders? Either set screw or collet tool holders. What...

[Bob La Londe]

No worries.



3:2 pulley drive with a 1-3ph VFD. I won't know if it has any chance at 5HP at any speed until I see the VFD...

[Bob La Londe]

While the discussion is still educational, the point is now moot for me. I ordered (I think) an 5HP R8 machine....

[Bob La Londe]

Glad to see you pointing that canon at somebody else this time. LOL...