We don't sharpen inserts but we do have diamond wheels for making our cutting tools.
Yes the costs are up on everything!
Here is a good one. I was looking for a particular brand of grease as we make our own lapping compound! Everyone is out of it! No B.S. spent a week off and on looking for it. Nobody and I mean nobody had any.
So when I finally was able to get the tech guy on the phone at our lubricant supplier...he laughed and said...you almost won't find any either. I said what do you mean? He said, Didn't you see....the plant in IL that makes
75% of the grease for the U.S. market burned to the ground a few months ago. I said what?
Sure enough I did a google search....
Seventy employees were safely evacuated at Chemtool, the largest manufacturer of grease in the Americas.
www.manufacturing.net
Burned for 9 days.
He was able to find me a 40 gallon pail of the stuff but waited two weeks for it to get here. I was sweating it out as we we're down to our last one pound container of the stuff.
So yes of course the cost of the grease is up as well!