05-22-2015, 04:02 PM
(05-22-2015, 02:39 PM)PixMan Wrote: Little bit of a tool gloat here...again.
I just received this spanking new Walter Valenite solid carbide insert boring bar that I had sniped of eBay. Only one other bidder, whose initial bid met the starting price of $20.00, seemed to be after it. Not knowing how many others may have had it on their radar, the auction was ending when I would be home so I waited until the last five seconds of the auction and entered my max of $56.79. I won the auction for a paltry $22.50 + $8.65 for shipping. The current list is $460.00, which is nearly 2.5x what a nearly equal quality Ultradex bar lists for. OK, the list on this is ridiculous but my total of $31.15 is only 16% of the same Ultradex bar or less than 7% of it's own original list price. Nice.
I don't currently own any CPGT or CPMT 21.5x size insert for it but will be buying some soon. This non coolant fed bar will replace a Kennametal 1/2" solid carbide coolant fed one that I'm not fond of because it takes a hard to find triangular insert with a shallow counterbored hole, held in with a Torx socket head cap screw of some special design. It may be a Circle Machine brand (now a Kennametal company), but I'm disinclined to persue inserts by getting this "upgrade" to a bar that takes a common insert.
This one deserves a few
s.Ed