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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
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TI Milling Coolant
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<blockquote data-quote="tuyere" data-source="post: 359589" data-attributes="member: 26916"><p>All things dental are marked up 10x from other industries, so if you can figure out which product it is, exactly, that's being repackaged, relabelled and priced with an extra zero at the end, you can save a bundle. The tricky part is doing the matching, of course. And machinist's suppliers conveniently carry at least half of everything that's getting rebranded and marked up. </p><p>Coolant is a bit nerve-wracking for the viscosity etc subtleties of substituting, but tooling is one of the easier things to do this with- I bought 4mm shank carbide end mills from Travers at literally 1/10th the price Argen was charging for ~genuine Roland~ and it performs identically. I'm gonna give a full spread of coated micro ball mills a try soon, if they're satisfactory for our day-to-day work we could save a bundle every year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tuyere, post: 359589, member: 26916"] All things dental are marked up 10x from other industries, so if you can figure out which product it is, exactly, that's being repackaged, relabelled and priced with an extra zero at the end, you can save a bundle. The tricky part is doing the matching, of course. And machinist's suppliers conveniently carry at least half of everything that's getting rebranded and marked up. Coolant is a bit nerve-wracking for the viscosity etc subtleties of substituting, but tooling is one of the easier things to do this with- I bought 4mm shank carbide end mills from Travers at literally 1/10th the price Argen was charging for ~genuine Roland~ and it performs identically. I'm gonna give a full spread of coated micro ball mills a try soon, if they're satisfactory for our day-to-day work we could save a bundle every year. [/QUOTE]
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