SRDCN Turning Tool

[Deanofid]

The 2 signifies that the tip is 1/4" diameter. and that should be followed by 1.5 as 15 is not a recognised thickness code, 1.5 is 3/32 thick.

Jason

I wonder why industry does weird stuff like this? The size of the thing is 21.5, which is a meaningless number unless you know the key to the "secret code", (1/16"). What they are trying to say is it's 2/8" dia X 1.5/16" thick. How clumsy. Just seems dumb, when they could have used common fractions, or plain ol' decimal point numerals to let everyone know exactly what size it is:
1/4" x 3/32", or
.250" x .093".
Then everyone in (the US) would know what size the thing is. But... noooo.

It looks to me like the size I want is RCMT 21.5 or RCMT215 which has a 1/4" IC. I'm assuming this means the diameter is 1/4"?

Chuck

That's another one. The inscribed circle of a circle. Yeah, it's 1/4" diameter in this case, Chuck. They use that "inscribed circle" thing to tell you the size of triangle shaped tools and such.
You can get these round tool bits in that size at Enco, MSC and the other usual suspects.

Dean

 

[Twmaster]

It about made my eyes bleed trying to finger out what sized inserts fit this Glanze tool I got from Chronos. While they were just fine filling my order they were completely unhelpful when I asked them questions about the inserts and the correct size to order. They simpley said, yes we have them. X number of pounds each. Gee. Thanks.

Otherwise I like the tool. One thing from India I cannot grump about.

 

[Omnimill]

There's plenty of info in this document, including insert sizes:

http://www.kennametal.com/images/repositories/PDFs/A05-28SteelTurning.pdf

Or this one: http://www.secotools.com/CorpWeb/Service_Support/machining_navigator/2009/GB_Turning_2009.pdf

Vic.

 

[Blogwitch]

I don't know if this will help you lads out.
It seems like you would prefer to get into a bit of self flagelation, looking thru endless charts of goobledegook rather than just asking someone if they have the info already. These are the two I use mostly, and the 6mm ones are the same as what Chronos will sell you.

Please excuse the 6mm ones, they are mostly used ones and need resharpening, but the box they are in is genuine.

The numbers are.

6mm - RCMT 06 02 M0E 70

8mm - RCGT 08 03 M0 CM3

All the 0's are zero. I think the four letter code, and the following two pairs of numbers are almost all you will need.

Please don't ask what the other codes mean, most probably material to be cut, I have got better things to do than start bashing my head against a brick wall. I just buy what I want and use them. We are not in a production environment here, and most probably what you get off ebay are an out of use item anyway, been superceded by something better.

Hope this helps

Bogs