How hard is "Hardened"

Are you going to name names?

Not at the moment If I do its unfair to the supplier without being given a chance to respond If I dont its maybe unfair to people on this NG

Rock and Hard spot!

"Richard Edwards" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

The name "Rockwell" springs to mind when discussing the degree of hardness. Look at:

Thanks but no help at all! I have a J&S Knurling tool, the shank of which I cannot touch with a file. I would expect a QC toolholder to be of similar hardness, not in this case!

Richard, I have one with a wiggly screw thing but I reached the stage where I have ceased to patronise the cheap jacks. My four way tool holder( non Myford) is destined for a 'the Museum for White Elephants. Somebody else commented about his Myford( type) fixed steady- from---- Oh, dear, a Bridge over Troubled Waters?

Wasn't it Ruskin who commented long before us?

Norman

As the US Federal Bank cuts the bank rate by a further half of one percent and the Stock Exchange is still showing losses- apart from food supermarkets, John Ruskin's words are :- There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and those who buy by price alone are this man's lawful prey.

Cheers

Norm

Norm

Richard, John Ruskin was one of the Lakeland poets but even if you are not into them, read

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell at little cheaper, and those who buy by price alone are this man's lawful prey

Today, I was following the drop of 1/2% by the US Fed Bank and the continued fall of the Stock Exchange here. It was called Political Economy when - was it that long ago?

Now it is time to read Stubbs Gazette rather than think about Stubs silver steels.

Norman

Ay up Norm you are turning this thread into financial politics mixed with literary greats ;-) None of which is telling me how hard my toolholders should be ;-)

Richard, you have two choices. The first is to case harden and grind the end result. The second is to grind your teeth and live with them!

I mean , I could go into the Sale of Goods Act 1893 but there are bigger problems to tackle.

I suffer from Bruxism almost silently.

Norm

Quite.

If they are claimed to be hardened and ground then should be file hard or at least very hard to touch with a file. Send them back PDQ with a snotty letter and tell us where you got them.