[IRCA] Semi OT: Cutting Ferrite Bars?

2008-07-24 Thread John H. Bryant
In the work that Gary DeBock, Guy Atkins and I are doing with mods to the E100, I've run up against the need to reduce the length of the stock ferrite bar by half. Has anybody ever done this successfully??? Have you ever heard rumors of someone doing this successfully? HOW I seem to rem

Re: [IRCA] Semi OT: Cutting Ferrite Bars?

2008-07-24 Thread Gil Stacy
John, They are brittle as heqq. Hack saw impervious as well. I've scored and broken at the score line as one would cut glass, but they were only .375" OD. The watercooled diamond blade should work very well; however. The watercooled feature would not alter the annealing of the bars which is impo

Re: [IRCA] Semi OT: Cutting Ferrite Bars?

2008-07-24 Thread Craig Healy
> In the work that Gary DeBock, Guy Atkins and I are doing with mods to > the E100, I've run up against the need to reduce the length of the > stock ferrite bar by half. > > Has anybody ever done this successfully??? Have you ever heard rumors > of someone doing this successfully? HOW > > I se

Re: [IRCA] Semi OT: Cutting Ferrite Bars?

2008-07-24 Thread John H. Bryant
Thanks to everyone who supplied ideas/info on this subject. Since I have the tile saw readily available and a spare E100 Ferrite bar, I'll give that a try and let you know! Plenty of water. John B. At 11:53 AM 7/24/2008 -0700, you wrote: In the work that Gary DeBock, Guy Atkins