Flipped my stance on tool presetters after a $600 mistake

I used to think tool presetters were just for fancy shops with money to burn. Then last month I ran a batch of 40 parts with a worn holder and scrapped 12 before I caught it. That was about $600 in material down the drain. My buddy let me borrow his cheap presetter for a week and I caught three bad tools before they hit the spindle. Has anyone else resisted buying one and then justified the cost after one bad run?

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spencer_moore391mo ago

That $600 mistake is pretty much exactly what it costs to buy a decent used presetter. One bad run pays for it and then some.

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