On Friday 14 February 2014 19:59:07 andy pugh did opine: > On 14 February 2014 20:07, Pete Matos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kawasaki is just another off branded > > chinese POS as far as I have seen. > > I guess they have no connection to the company that makes the > motorcycles or Boeing fuselages then. > > Steelwork companies who cut a lot of sections seem to use slow-speed > HSS blades (or plasma)
Chuckle, story time with that remark fellows. My stepfather worked at Solar MFG in Des Moines for a while after the war (WW-II) up till '56 or so, wound up in the tool & die shop. Cutting up some titanium one day, he broke the last saw blade in the tool crib. That saw actually worked a lot like a modern abrasive chop saw but had semi-hard teeth whose main job was to generate friction and carry air at high speed into the cut, with blade speeds in the 10,000 fpm region. Looking around, he spotted a barrel of steel shipping strap about an inch wide, grabbed a piece, cut it to the length of the broken blade and welded it right on the saw's own built in blade welder. He finished out the his shift, cutting pieces at about 75% of the normal cutting speed, and only had to weld up one more "blade" to finish his shift. He had to do the same thing on Monday, till a carton of regular blades showed up about noonish. They cut faster, but only because the teeth carried more air. Something like this: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8eRPGHUC58> Only big enough to cut damned near anything. I believe he said its wheels were about 36" in diameter. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> NOTICE: Will pay 100 USD for an HP-4815A defective but complete probe assembly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
