Re: Cutting stainless media

I have 4 inch, 6 inch, 10 inch 18 inch and 36 inch diamond saws in my shop.

Therefore I undoubtedly know a tad-bit about the blades and what they will

and will not do. If you "insist" on screwing up a high dollar diamond
blade 
on 30 dollars worth of cutting   -----    go right ahead. At least buy a 
"Meteorite" blade before attempting metal though. Or at least google
cutting 
Nickel Iron meteorites to see why a plain vanilla diamond saw blade clogs
on 
metal.

 Don't **** with the bull, you'll only get the horn.

-- 


Don Thompson

Stolen from Dan:  "Just thinking, besides, I watched 2 dogs mating once,
and that makes me an expert. "

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
~Goethe

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom;
it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
~Mark Twain


"Jeff" <clajef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:5b5bfc15-8e07-4089-9627-9a70bf217389@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Apr 25, 12:23 pm, "Don T" <-paint...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>  HeH. "possibility", "should", etc. The result of using a diamond rock 
>> saw
>> blade on S.S. will be to cause the S.S. to fill the blade and stop 
>> cutting
>> very quickly. Ever try to file Lead? Or Aluminum? Or Brass? The soft 
>> metal
>> clogs the teeth and has to be prevented from doing so by either a good 
>> layer
>> of soapstone on the file teeth or by frequent carding of the file
>>
>> Don Thompson
>>
>
> Have you ever used a diamond rock saw on metal before? I have. A
> number of times. Are you aware that there are no "teeth" as you would
> normally find on a saw blade? The blade is a continuous metal surface
> with the diamond cutting "teeth" embedded within. It is vani****ngly
> unlikely that you could "clog" such a system, but hey - I have not
> actually run any SS through it before, so I had to qualify my
> statement. I remain unconvinced that there would be any problems.
> Should I get the opprotunity to test, I will so so and re****t my
> findings.
>
> Jeff P