Slot Milled into New Aloris Tool Holder

[erikmannie]

Long story short, I bought a new Aloris CXA #1 tool holder online from All Industrial.

When it arrived, I saw what you see in the photos. It turns out that Aloris had a metric part number on there that they milled off at the factory.

All Industrial was great. They provided a return label, and gave me a full refund. All of the 8 tool holders that All Industrial currently had in inventory had the slot milled in there. All Industrial bought these wholesale from Aloris.

I ordered a replacement directly from Aloris, and it came as expected (with no unnecessary slots milled into it).

 

[Winegrower]

I can’t really see that hurts anything, but for the price, you should indeed get it your way.

 

[erikmannie]

I can’t really see that hurts anything, but for the price, you should indeed get it your way.

I invite everybody to chime in whether or not they would have returned that.

Returning it was a no brainer for me, but I am picky about my tools.

 

[woodchucker]

overall it looked like a used tool.
WTH didn't they just leave the numbers on?
I am bothered by the horrible job they did.

But if the tool was discounted, I probably would have kept it.

 

[akjeff]

I invite everybody to chime in whether or not they would have returned that.

Returning it was a no brainer for me, but I am picky about my tools.

I'm with you, I would have returned it as well. If they had been up front about it, and called it a "scratch & dent" or "second" ( and priced its accordingly ), I'd have been fine. When you have a reputation of being one of the gold standards in lathe tool holding, putting out product like that as new just screams I don't give a ****!

 

[MrWhoopee]

Those should be priced as factory seconds. Not that it affects the usefulness in anyway, but when you pay what Aloris charges it should look better than the Chinese copies.

 

[mmcmdl]

I would've stamped my initials in that slot if they were discounted enough .

 

[SLK001]

I can't tell... Was the milled area blackened? Also, what was metric about it? At least they could have deburred the area.

I'm with you... I would have returned them also.

 

[rabler]

I would have done the same. Would have made me wonder if they were forgeries/knock offs.

 

[erikmannie]

The slot was milled before the black finish was applied.

Out of curiosity, I searched online for metric Aloris tool holders, but I did not find any info.