I'm in Hong Kong for a meeting and decided to buy some of the tools that are cheap here but expensive to ship (saved $176 in postage).
CTC tools were unable to ship to my hotel, so I had to go and pick them up. It took 4 different train lines and a 15 minute walk (each way). At one point I thought I had left HK and entered China! The man I met in their office was very friendly. I bought a 75mm (3") boring head with a NMTB30 arbor and 12 brazed carbide bars, and a full set of ER32 collets. The quality is very good, which is a bonus and I was able to inspect them before paying.
The boring head set cost me $113.00. If I bought it locally it would have cost me $319.00 and I would have had to buy the arbor, which adds $71.50 to the price - total saving of $277.50.
The 19 piece collet set (2mm - 20mm) cost me $65.50. Local price for an 18 piece set (3mm - 20mm) is $352.00! - total saving of $286.59.
I think the cross country trek was well worth it and would have cost me less than $10 in train fairs.
I also bought an 82 piece metric gauge block set from YS tools, who delivered them free of charge to my hotel. I have a set of inch ones but as I have both metric and inch metrology tools, this will make checking them easier.
The set cost me $89.99 and the price locally is a whopping $493.90
and it is the same grade - total saving of $403.91.
So, all up I saved $967.91 on what I would have had to pay if I bought them locally at home. I'm well pleased with that. In fact, it doesn't make what I would have paid for in postage all that bad, but hey, better in my pocket than somebody else.
CTC tools were unable to ship to my hotel, so I had to go and pick them up. It took 4 different train lines and a 15 minute walk (each way). At one point I thought I had left HK and entered China! The man I met in their office was very friendly. I bought a 75mm (3") boring head with a NMTB30 arbor and 12 brazed carbide bars, and a full set of ER32 collets. The quality is very good, which is a bonus and I was able to inspect them before paying.
The boring head set cost me $113.00. If I bought it locally it would have cost me $319.00 and I would have had to buy the arbor, which adds $71.50 to the price - total saving of $277.50.
The 19 piece collet set (2mm - 20mm) cost me $65.50. Local price for an 18 piece set (3mm - 20mm) is $352.00! - total saving of $286.59.
I think the cross country trek was well worth it and would have cost me less than $10 in train fairs.
I also bought an 82 piece metric gauge block set from YS tools, who delivered them free of charge to my hotel. I have a set of inch ones but as I have both metric and inch metrology tools, this will make checking them easier.
The set cost me $89.99 and the price locally is a whopping $493.90
and it is the same grade - total saving of $403.91.So, all up I saved $967.91 on what I would have had to pay if I bought them locally at home. I'm well pleased with that. In fact, it doesn't make what I would have paid for in postage all that bad, but hey, better in my pocket than somebody else.
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