The prise of things..

[kiwi]

how much do you guys pay for lathe or mill tooling
over there ....????

needed a small boreing bar...so went to the local engineering
surply outlet......
one 10mm boreing bar & a 10 packet of CCMT inserts &
two 10 packs of TCMT inserts......$312.00..

Dam could of bought another gun for that...

wasn't so bad...got them for $281.00 in the end
lucky they know me....in there all tme for gear for work...

[shady816]

Hi Peter...i just looked all that up in the shars book and it all could be had for just under $100 bucks in the states.

[rocker1]

in nz dollars  converted to american dollars at that price it would be$ 200.46 american but if you convert 100 dollars at the american price it would be$140.77 new zealand dollars . i believe you could have a friend here ship it to you even with shipping cost and save money. its a thought. when i was there i was always doing the dollar conversion, for some reason seemed to me everything there was a third higher  than here.

[kiwi]

Hi...
1/3 higher seems about right....
Have got stuff though the little machine shop in the passed
mite start useing them more often...Just need to order
before I need the bits...

There is cheaper gear around.but mainly Chinese
Never had a lot of luck with cheap inserts....

Pete

[kiwi]

Double post...
DAM

Pete

[Gene_SC]

Only thing I know Peter is with all my tooling I could of bought a couple more lathes and mills with the money I spent on tooling...:)

[DanoInTx]

I know the stuff I was buying for work last year for the lathe and mill was crazy expensive.  Those tool inserts can run $5-$20 each, start buying them in 10 packs and, well, you get the idea:)  Nice thing about running a shop for a bigger company was that I could drop a $1000 on tooling and no-one would even notice....fill out the order form, have the boss sign it, have the shop order it.  Wish I could do that at home, haha!!!