Worth trying carbide on a mill/drill?

[Jawn]

Would either carbide insert end mills or solid carbide end mills be beneficial in a mill/drill (2hp) , or would I do best sticking to HSS? I don't have a particular project in mind yet, other than just trying different things to see what works and what doesn't.

I understand there's different inserts / geometry for different materials, so that turns into a good pile of money for carbide tooling. Worth trying?

[SteveHGraham]

I don't see why it would matter. You can get relatively cheap resharpened end mills on Ebay, but don't expect nominal diameters.

Sometimes Enco lets them go cheap.

It's pretty annoying when one chips.

[hammermill]

Start with HSS and learn learn learn.any slop and carbide snaps. When you are confident of things then try it

Depending on the mill you may not have adequate spindle speed. Again. More learning

[tornitore45]

What hammermill said is worth a few hundred dollars of chipped carbide.
Have broken a few making dumb mistakes, no problem now that the mistakes rate is lower.