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[the penguin]

Last week I ordered some carbide inserts from ISI Direct, one of the ads on that site was for a small diameter boring bar that takes the CCMT 21.51 inserts. It was marketed by some company out of Hong Kong/China, as I've bought a few things from Hong Kong in the past, I said what the hell and ordered the 6 mm boring bar. They estimated a 3 week delivery, it came today.

Apparently either I read the ad wrong or was in a fresh baked ham coma, because its not what I ordered. I got set, a 7 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm and a 12 mm boring bars, with 10 generic CCMT 21.51 inserts. All for the $23.78, that included postage. Postage was a $1.05 from Taizhou China, the tag on the tube says Taizhou Lianggong NC tool Co, LTD

Obviously, I have no idea about the quality of the boring bars, the inserts are probably 1 step above compressed dirt, but the actual overall fit and finish is fabulous, they each came in a plastic tube, with a T8 flag wrench, for the insert screw. I went back and looked at the ad, it clearly says a set, but at the time, the ad looked different.

Hopefully these will work okay, I needed a small boring bar, I already had a 1/2" (roughly the same as the 12 mm), but the 3 smaller boring bars are good to have.