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Posted by Cliff on May 16, 2006, 7:41 pm
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>Hello -
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>We'll be cutting thin wall (16G, .062") 304 stainless steel tubing - 1"
>x 2" down to 5/8" square. We've got a new Kaltenbach KKS 400E. With
>the stock blades (16"), the saw cuts at +/- 50 surface feet per minute.
> We'll be atomizing our coolant.
Do you actually need any? Would "atomizing" (whatever that is)
it do any good if you did?
Getting the chips, if any, out of the gulets .....
>Our primary objective is to minimize
>or eliminate burr.
The burr where, exactly?
>Does anybody have experience with this?
I've personally cut tens of thousands of bits of Aluminum
tube ... (very low tolerance on length or much else).
Built a crude wooden guide & let the tubes rotate as
they were being cut .... any burr ended up on the inside ...
which was fine for the application.
Considered automating a tubing cutter too but ..
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Cliff
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>We'll be cutting thin wall (16G, .062") 304 stainless steel tubing - 1"
>x 2" down to 5/8" square. We've got a new Kaltenbach KKS 400E. With
>the stock blades (16"), the saw cuts at +/- 50 surface feet per minute.
> We'll be atomizing our coolant.