Hi,
If they are the red painted ones with braised carbide tips, they are
crap. Other than practice the only reason for putting them in the
box was so you had something to do on Christmas afternoon if Santa
forgot the accessories.
Unless you get a QCTP, get used to shims. It's normal practice. If
your lathe is designed to support 5/16 tooling it will be
DELIBERATELY a tad low on 5/16" tools. That's to allow you to shim
the last bit. If they tried to get the height exact, tolerances
would often land them on the high side so shims wouldn't work. Of
course, you can grind HSS tools lower. But you get the idea. You're
actually MEANT to shim tools on fixed height turret holders.
John
--- In 7x12minilathe@..., "harleyknall" <knall@...>
wrote:
I just got my cumming 7x12 mini lathe, it came with 5 crappy
5/16"
bits. They seemed to contact the work are a bit low, and needed
to be
shimmed UP.
I like the idea of being able to use the indexable bits (3
sided)
what size shank should I be looking to get?
1/4 " ? 3/8"?
Thanks guys.
