Haas ST10 Tooling

[BrianP.]

The boss just bought a new lathe. It is a Haas ST10 and he is looking for a good place to buy tooling. Any suggestions? He is always price driven.

[Mr. M]

The boss just bought a new lathe. It is a Haas ST10

He is always price driven.

A little redundancy?

[JAMMAN]

I get it! took a while.

 

If you need inexpensive, go Hemly: http://www.hemlytool.com/

 

Seriously half the stuff I get for holders and inserts come from here.

[Machineguy]

I have a SL-10.

All the tooling is .750 square. Holders with the machine for round tooling are 1.0" dia and 1.250 dia. That will hold a good range for collet holders with ER 20 collets.

I use a lot of .008 R tipped inserts for steel and Alum. I do a lot of prototype work here. Bigger radiuses push to hard on the small stuff.

YOur ST is stronger then the SL turrent wise. It will handle bumps much better, although I've never crashed this machine to find out.

From chuck to tailstock, max length is 12.00" turning. You have to turn down the saftey zone that protects the tailstock to do that.

Look into a Royal Collet chuck for 3J collets. It will grip tighter for the heaver cuts.

I also have the Bar feeder. Major Plus for this machine. Easy to setup and no issues. Program the job and walk away.

 

Machineguy

[BrianP.]

A little redundancy?

 

Yeah I know a lot of people like to slam the Haas machines. But I have run a ton of them in different shops making a ton of money. Isn't that the object.

[Mr. M]

well, that is the end goal

[Rocketmachinist]

Wait for a sale at MSC. Those 30% off sales really add up after a while.

[Thee Dragracer1951]

Or talk to Frank at Mari Tool

[JAMMAN]

Wait for a sale at MSC. Those 30% off sales really add up after a while.

 

IMO MSC has priced themselves right out of the market. I only get about 100 bucks a year worth of stuff from them, usually an extreme emergency where price doesn't matter.

 

I used to get all my stuff through McMaster Carr, prices are way better than MSC.

[jeff]

IMO MSC has priced themselves right out of the market.

 

I wonder if that's because they bought out J&L Ind Supply?

They were a huge competitor.

Or did J&L buy out MSC? Either way, their prices aren't like they used to be.

[htm01]

msc owns j&l and enco

its easy to cross reference mcmaster to msc, lots of things are cheaper at one or the other

[Thee Dragracer1951]

I'm tellin ya, call Frank at Maritool

Very nice tools at a Very reasonable price.

Maritool.com