Thread: Machinist's / hobby machinist's

Cool didn't know fletcher would sell by the m, I used to go donavans but since they moved I have been going to bindons.
I'm trying to go hss, I use some cheap carbide bits but want to set myself up for hss better. Things like tool holders and I want to get a 4 jaw chuck, bits like that are you looking through engineering shops or more like machinery warehouse, I have bought all my lathe specialised stuff through them but I'm thinking allot of the tooling/chucks is just the stuff we see on the ali baba website rebranded.

The Chinese end Mills that came with my mill/drill are pretty rubbish, I have only used them on aluminium and you can already see they are not really concentric.