Be Careful with Carbide Tooling

[Earl]

I dropped my brand new 1/2 inch carbide end mill. It was in the tube and it fell about 14 inches. That was a very expensive lesson. Dont let it happen to you.

 

[FOMOGO]

Well that sucks, but similar things happen to the best of us. Scratch head, take note, and carry on. Cheers, Mike

 

[Lo-Fi]

That sucks! Worst I've done is drop a 10mm carbide 4 flute out of the collet and knock a corner off.

 

[benmychree]

Offshore or domestic?

I dropped my brand new 1/2 inch carbide end mill. It was in the tube and it fell about 14 inches. That was a very expensive lesson. Dont let it happen to you.

 

[Suzuki4evr]

Offshore or domestic?

Good question, because bought a 8mm "carbide" on ebay from china and I am not so sure how carbide it really was.......yes was,because it broke way to easy as far as I can remember, but can't remember how exactly.

 

[markba633csi]

I suspect/wonder if it had a flaw- that's a short distance to fall, especially in the tube
-M

 

[martik777]

Couldn't you make a holder for that and just use the shorter length?

 

[benmychree]

Couldn't you make a holder for that and just use the shorter length?

There is virtually nothing to hold onto.

 

[brino]

Well that sucks, but similar things happen to the best of us. Scratch head, take note, and carry on. Cheers, Mike

I would add "curse" to Mike's list.

-brino

 

[Buffalo21]

I’ve dropped taps and drills, before and had them shatter