On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:32:39 GMT, somebody wrote:

It's 1/8in plate, dull and greasy, probably 304. I buggered the
bandsaw blade, then two "hardened carbide, blah, blah" jig saw blades,
a file, a diamond file, then got a beefy angle grinder and gouged
grooves in it and forced it through what was left of the bandsaw metal
blade, dressed it fairly straight with the grinder and ground it to
shape on a big bench sander with gnarly grit paper. This took several
frustrating hours. There was course language and graphic violence. It
won't fit in the power hacksaw because of it's initial shape. Is there
an easier way? We don't have a pneumatic metal stamper, cutter, shear
thing locally. Thanks as always.

SS is work hardening. You use lubricant (kerosene if I recall,) and a
hearty feed. It's tough. In a power bandsaw, you use a bimetal blade
of course, but for choice its one made by ..er.. aw shucks I can't
dredge up the name, but I will..... Maddox, Braddox - no, Lenox -
that's the ticket.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

Brian Whatcott wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:32:39 GMT, somebody wrote:


It's 1/8in plate, dull and greasy, probably 304. I buggered the
bandsaw blade, then two "hardened carbide, blah, blah" jig saw blades,
a file, a diamond file, then got a beefy angle grinder and gouged
grooves in it and forced it through what was left of the bandsaw metal
blade, dressed it fairly straight with the grinder and ground it to
shape on a big bench sander with gnarly grit paper. This took several
frustrating hours. There was course language and graphic violence. It
won't fit in the power hacksaw because of it's initial shape. Is there
an easier way? We don't have a pneumatic metal stamper, cutter, shear
thing locally. Thanks as always.


SS is work hardening. You use lubricant (kerosene if I recall,) and a
hearty feed. It's tough. In a power bandsaw, you use a bimetal blade
of course, but for choice its one made by ..er.. aw shucks I can't
dredge up the name, but I will..... Maddox, Braddox - no, Lenox -
that's the ticket.

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

According to the then owner of Metal Masters in Toronto, (who's name
I cannor recall, quite disgracefully, one of my failings,) when I
arrived on a saturday after a 3 hour drive to find the door open and
the place deserted, and called him from his desk and put coffee on
and waited, and then bought some perforated toerail for my SC22 (for
NO discount!) and chatted with him about his exploits in Nazi
Germany the day before war was declared by England, while he was
escaping by the skin of his teeth from a large manufacturing plant
that was filling up with Storm trooper guys carrying sub machine
guns, where machinists were using white hot bandsaws to cut out big
gun breech blocks, when he asked the saw operator "Vas is das?" as
he sprinkled a white powder in the saw kerf, noticibly improving
cutting and cooling, he got the reply "Borax."

Flux, lubrication and cooling is critical when machining SS.

He walked out calmly and took that gem back to England with him,
where it helped the allied war effort considerably, he felt.

Terry K