I bought 10kg of titanium rod via Alibaba, from my Chinese communist capitalist friends. Including shipping and the escrow fee, it was about half of the best price I could find in the USA. The quality seems very good. Next time, I think I'll order 20kg.
Speaking of spindles and the Chinese... I'm still digging my inexpensive Chinese water cooled spindles for my two CNC routers, although I have zero spindle time on one and little time on the other. The spindles spin unbelievably smoothly - much nicer than very expensive spindles I've seen on high end CNC machines, and my Chinese spindle motors make the woodworking routers that many people use on hobby CNC routers look like they're using gravel for bearings. The water cooled Chinese spindle motors shipped with matching VFDs, and the cost was maybe $300 or so? Very low cost for the high quality, and that makes for good value. They run so smoothly that I'm probably getting longer life from my carbide tooling, so that would result in even more value. But back on the thread topic, I am still changing tools by hand. :-( On 10/20/2013 09:41 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 21 October 2013 02:20, Erik Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: >> alibaba... Shudder. > Good point, I can't claim to have ever tried buying from there. > However I did find responsive folk responding to emails for quotes and > queries. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
