TOOLING SURVEY

The survey will only accept one choice for me..I use self grind HSS most of the time and CARBIDE INSERT for toughened steel or cast iron.

The poll seems to work as in other forums and once you have logged in and made a choice, you can see the results accumulating from everyone.

John

Edited By Journeyman on 08/02/2018 10:43:19

Works for me. Surprising to see HSS ahead of carbide. I thought I was being a dinosaur still using HSS. Glad to see the species is not quite extinct yet. (I am waiting for my recently ordered set of insert tooling and CMGT inserts to arrive in the post though!)

I put carbon steel as it is only a TEST SURVEY and I have no real preference.

Carbon steel is probably my least preferred as I don't think I have any that I use now. Heat treating is difficult when one is not good with colours.

‘Horses for courses’, I reckon. And not much choice for end mills, if those happen to be your most used cutter ( if you mill on the lathe)!

So the survey, if a real one, would need some better constraints added to be properly meaningful so that the results are dependable.

The ones i don't use are carbon and hss inserts on the lathe, on the mill and pillar drill hss and carbide and on the shaper mostly hand ground hss.

We use 'survey Monkey' a lot at work but it may charge for commercial use. The big problem with surveys is always that the questions always seem to be the wrong ones half an hour after you set the thing up.

NDIY - there's always one, isn't there?

All will become clear in a week or two

Neil

I did note the ‘winner’ would be announced after you put up the previos effort. If prizes were awarded, I figured I might get the wooden spoon for my contribution.

As I wrote, there is no ‘preference’ - I use an appropriate cutter for the purpose in hand, or hopefully use one that will do the job. They all have pros and cons.

Yes, there is no simple answer to this question and everyone will differ in their own preferences.

I mainly prefer to grind my own HSS tools - but do use inserts for specific purposes (parting and screw-cutting mostly). Carbon steel is very useful for tooling that needs special or specific 'shaping' which can be done before hardening - small boring tools, D bits, taps, dies, some form and/or fly-cutting tools etc.

Hard to capture that in a survey though I suspect....

Regards,

IanT

No cobalt HSS?

That stuff has changed my lathe and shaper life kinda thing, it has the toughness of carbide and the ease of HSS

Does not matter what options were on the poll, could just have well been armchair, sofa, bean bag etc.

The reason for posting was for Neil to see how the forum software could or could not be used for his purpose. As the results are public that does not suit his needs. Pity there is no option to keep the poll results hidden a sit works well apart from that .

Would have thought someone would have worked out what it is all in aid of by now, i got it straight away.

Edited By JasonB on 08/02/2018 15:08:05

Gathering data on what we have in the shed, sell to some lowlife ? Just joking.

At the moment its carbide inserts ahead by 1% at 39% followed by own HSS at 38% This is as exciting as the referendum!

I prefer good quality softwood inserts

I would like to help but seem to be allowed to make only one choice of lathe tooling, I use 3 types in practice.

Brian

It asks you what your prefer, not what you use - choose your favourite!

I prefer the ones that some one else pays for .

I prefer carbide inserts for most of my tooling.

Frank

Well, HSS leads by a short nose.

I'm sure that 10 or 15 years ago carbide would have been way behind.

Interesting how few folks use pre-ground HSS tools - I use them in various sizes for boring in particular, although they almost always need grinding away under the cutting edge for small holes.

Neil

Will there be a design for a 'swingometer' in MEW?