"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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As for Stellite and related superalloy cutting tools, they have a few
niches, but in general they don't fair well on the cost/performance scale.
They aren't hard enough to compete with carbide in hard materials and they
can't approach their cutting speeds. On modern machine tools, they're of
little use today.

However, someone mentioned something about non-rigid machine tools, and
that's probably a place where they do quite well, since they're fairly
tough.

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Ed Huntress

Yep, that's why I said:

Stellite is very good for the guy that
tends to hand grind HSS tools instead of rely on inserts. Needless to say,
those that run CNC machines would not benefit at all.

Harold