Carbide Lathe Tooling Advice

[R.C.]

As a side note,

We've been going through our tooling and consolidating it all. One thing that we liked doing was making sure most if not all of our lathe indexable tooling used the same insert. We currently have two lathes and are picking up a third soon. So its nice that the inserts work across both machines.

Our boring bars, turning holders (1/2" thick and 3/4") thick both use CCMT. We went with the 32.5X size. Inserts from latheinserts.com or Maritool are awesome.

For all our grooving stuff we use thinbit, the inserts work both in the 1/2" and 3/4" holders we own.

Originally Posted by Aur0r4

We have no holders yet, which is why I wanted to pick a type that was good for most robotics work and standardize on that, as AlecS mentioned.

Jim, if you PM me I can send you the list of stuff we just bought/will be buying.

-RC