On Friday 28 February 2014 11:28:31 John Alexander Stewart did opine: > Gene; > > > I'm still learning how much to push it now that I have (finally) found > > > > > good carbide end mills, replacing the ones picked up over the last > > > 20 years. > > > > I've been getting my smaller stuff from Midwest Circuit Supply, but > > probably am paying too much if the fleabay stuff is actually sharp and > > not somebody's used stuff. Bigger, 1/4" from Hemly, but again I've > > not tried the fleabay equ's. > > > > Opinions? > > Being north of the border, shipping is generally a lot of $$, so I'm not > worried about item price so much as shipping cost. I've ordered from > LakeshoreCarbide.com, and had shipping via USPS (goes to Canada Post), > which is the least expensive option. Shipping via a courier can easily > cost equal or more than the cost of the item, when a border crossing > comes into play, and the items are inexpensive. > > so, different set of issues == different opinions! > > John.
Exactly John. That border crossing BS is a major impediment to cross border commerce, going both ways. So are the "I don't give a shit" delays at the border. And storage at the border is out in the weather because the shack they process that stuff in is not much bigger than a telephone booth. I have gotten stuff from Norpac that was still soggy from being rained on while it spent 2 weeks laying on the ground outside the shack, inside the chain link I guess, but no weather protection. I had to open it up and let it set on the bench for 3 days before I felt it was dry enough to to plug in the line cord. It didn't work, but another 3 days to dry and it did. I burned up some telephone lines over that since it was an about $4000 USD piece of gear. An automatic station id gizmo CBS wanted us to use. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified > tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow > Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate > reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one > tool. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.c > lktrk _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> NOTICE: Will pay 100 USD for an HP-4815A defective but complete probe assembly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
