Blew $340 on a tool presetter and it paid for itself in 6 weeks

I run a small job shop out of my garage in Dayton and was setting tools with a feeler gauge and a dial indicator for way too long. Got fed up after scrapping a batch of parts, so I dropped $340 on a used tool presetter off a guy retiring from a bigger shop. First week I caught a face mill running 0.008 off that I never would have found by eye before, and I saved about 3 hours of setup time on a run of 40 parts. Anyone else using a presetter, or do you just touch off on the machine and deal with it?

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linda_murphy20d ago

Feeler gauge and indicator will still catch runout just fine, the presetter just does it faster off the machine. The real win is measuring the tool outside the spindle so you're not guessing on offsets with a hot spindle.

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