Best turning inserts according to redditors
We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best turning inserts. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 4 Reddit comments discussing the best turning inserts. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Like these https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G386Y3B/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_-ELLDbZSCDGA5
The rods come painted or something, and seldom come with instructions to scrape the coating off before use. It would be good to carry a few cheap rods in your environment to see if the coating is effective. You can get like 5 rods - 8mm thick on Amazon for a few dollars. To me that makes sense to keep one to play with, and one unused out of the same lot to keep in reserve (and a few lighters too)
>I'm looking to switch to a flint/steel or flint/titanium setup for my backup. Just wondering if anyone knew of a good modern alternative to flint?
Uh, any silicon based rock? Quartz? Chert? I guess you might be limited as to what you can find in your area. A tungsten-carbide lathe tooling insert link for photo, not an endorsement might work on steel or titanium and meets your criteria for "modern alternative". An impractical modern alternative is a battery powered angle grinder.
(Tungsten-carbide works great on ferro rods, but anything hard and sharp works on them, it's a low bar.)
So it's important to note that with flint/steel or flint/titanium, the metal is the thing that is generating the sparks, not the flint. That's opposite of what's going on with a ferro rod. You can use a knife or broken chunk of glass, or nearly anything hard to scrape the rod, and it's the rod making the sparks.
The sparks struck off a steel are much less hot than a ferro rod. Titanium is better than iron, but still doesn't give you the shower of sparks you get from a ferro rod.
I bought a set of carbide tools from ebay and turned the handles myself. It was a good first project and I have something I am proud of. That said, my local shop sells a lot of these and they recommend them over more expensive tools to start out. https://www.amazon.com/Rikon-Four-Piece-Turning-Carbide-Inserts/dp/B078XLQ3TM
I keep a Carbide Turning Tool Holder in my car,RC for just these kind of people, does a lot of damage to a car.