Lennie the Lurker wrote:

My point: why spend extra, several times extra, for something you have
neither the need or the power and rigidity to fully utilize? Carbides
were not designed to meet the needs of the HSM, they were designed for
machines capable of providing brute force power and rigidity, of which
damn few of us have.

I bought a bunch of TNMP-321's for $3 each and that's Canadian$.
That's $0.50 per point. Not much for the use I get from them.

Ted