🔧 Carbide Turning Chipbreaker 32/52 – Optimize Your Search! Review

These inserts do not look like the product photo. The ones that come with it don't have a chip breaker and the edges have a different shape. They produce super long aluminum curls. Stay away from this product. customer picture

Sized correctly and I need inserts but it is not what is pictured, chip breaking pattern is wrong and most of them have white cap tips even the tray they supplied , looks old and dirty. It's like someone tested half of them and decided to resell them.

I installed one of these on my small lathe and made some test cuts on several materials. It worked great on plastic (Delrin and PVC), aluminum (6061), brass (probably 260), mild steel (1081, 12L15, annealed O1 boring bar) and stainless steel (brand unknown). I tried several hardened materials and found the performance far from pleasant. The shavings on the 6061 are long and fibrous, but that's not unique to this insert. seems to be fairly common on 6061. In general. It is in order. They don't…