Thread: Machinists tools........

I got diamond files, mag bases and DTIs from ali Express. nothing spectacular but I use them. Most of my tools are high quality but you just need to make a judgement call about how much you'll use them and what quality results you expect. All I'd warn you about tools from Ali is that there isn't much consistency.
As PaulNZ said VERTEX is quite reasonable in price and very consistent, I used to use their clamp sets, vices & parallels when setting up a cnc mill and had no issues with them even when operators abused them.

Vertex is real good gear imo - i have quite a bit of it and its all proven to be spot on accurate. Just about everything i've got from Machinery House has been good to use regardless of brand, i can't say that for Chevpac though ... your mill vice imo needs to be a good one with built in down force on the movable jaw . out of curiosity what breed of mill do you have?