General question on tooling

[JScott]

Mine is the 7x10 and I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet.  I bought it from my friend Sherman last August.  In fact, I purchased his HF mini mill and he included a huge quantity of tooling.  End mills of all diameters and configurations; two flute, four flute, HSS, carbide, ball nose, etc.  A pretty complete set of 5C and R8 collets. A set of ER32 collets with an MT2 collet chuck. All sizes of square tool bits for the lathe in HSS, brazed carbide and a couple of tool bars to hold inserts. All kinds of small, brazed carbide boring bars, and a little grinding vise. Sherman was a tool and die maker that apprenticed in Chicago and then took a job with IBM in Boulder, CO.  As you can imagine he collected a lot of goodies over the 40+ years he spent in the trade.  He gifted me many great items like a sine bar, micrometers, calipers, parallels, even a Moore chair edge finder.  That edge finder is one of my prized pieces of tooling/metrology.
Anyway, sadly he passed away last October.  I was very fortunate that my travels allowed me to visit him twice last year and spend some good time with him.  I'll miss him but I hope to continue his legacy even though its through a hobby.  I'm sure he's happy seeing his machines being used.  I've got a bunch of little projects that I'm going to tackle this fall and winter here in Colombia that I'm going to post here.  And as I said I'll try and keep y'all posted as I start to make some progress.  Cheers!