JB Cutting Tools - Parting off 1.5mm Tipped tool.

[raynerd]

Hello

Last year at the Harrogate show I purchased a 1.5mm tipped Parting Off tool from Jenny on the JB Cutting Tool stand with one tip. They had run out of inserts but said if I contacted them they would send me more and have them back in stock very soon. They gave me a number and also the tip number and I was more than happy with that. I contacted them a short while later and they still had no tips but to contact them again very soon. During that period I used the tool and snapped the tip - which I now realise was my mistake for not having the tool setup correctly in the lathe. I put it to one side and whilest tidying my workshop up this evening, I came across it. I thought I`d give it another shot now I figured what I was doing wrong in the first place but of course need more tips. I had an email with the tip details and JB contact information but the works system deleted emails after a number of months if they are unopened!! JB tools don`t seem to have a website so I`m not sure what to do....a quick google search also brings up a few hits of model engineers trying to get in touch.

I`m not at all complaining, the two people on the stand, Jenny and I think her husband? were lovely and it looks a quality tool, it was my ignorance it was breaking, but I`m now after some replacement tips.

Does anyone have contact details for JB cutting tools?
Or does anyone know what insert fits the JB Cutting tool 1.5mm parting tool as sold last year at the 2010 Harrogate show?

Hope someone can help me. I don`t know why, maybe I`m wrong, but I think John Stevenson, do you have one of these tools?

Cheers
Chris

[HS93]

J B Cutting Tools
The Cottage Hundall Lane Apperknowle, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 4BP

East Midlands, Peak District

Phone: +44 (0) 1246 418110


                       Peter   

[Bluechip]

Hi Chris

No idea if this is of any use whatsoever ....

http://www.engineeringsupplies.co.uk/carbide-inserts-part-groove-c-188.html

Maybe one of those ...

Anyway ....

ZZZZZZ time 

Dave BC

[Ned Ludd]

Hi Chris,
I do know that, as of a couple of weeks ago, Jenny was having difficulty getting replacement tips. The only ones she could get were wholesale about a pound more than she was selling retail. Not the recipe for business growth.
Knowing her, I suspect that she will do her best to remedy the situation as soon as possible.

They did have a web site but gave it up as a bit of a waste of time.

You are right they are lovely people and she has a remarkable memory, she remembered which tip I was after for about 18 months and then kept a box of them till she saw me again.
Ned

[raynerd]

Thanks for the replies and the information. I will contact her and see what happens. It is dissapointing if she is having problems with the price of the tips. That being said, I should have followed it up when I first purchased the tool. I`d be interested to know just what tips they are!

Chris