G'day Rance and Richard.
The sound you hear Rance is applause for good thinking an ingenutity.
I have three cutoff saws. One a gadget with an angle grinder fixed to
it, next a freehand angle grinder and finally a hacksaw. Of the
three, the hacksaw gets the most use because it just hangs over the
bench. I like the exercise, cuting through a 20mm stainless steel bar
rhe other night only took a few minutes. Sure if I was cutting an
80mm bar I would be looking for some mechanical assistance.
BTW This reminds me. When a child, the railways were redirecting the
mainline tracks across the road from my parents home. It was rush job
during a Sunday morning "occupation". To cut the existing rail two
navies fronted up with an over size hand powered hacksaw and a packet
of blades. The rails were 94lb/yard, so not light section by Ozzy
standards. I recall my father's incredulity at the situation. They
commenced cutting just before we went to church, they had the rails
cut through and were joining them up by the time we got back a bit
over an hour later. They had a hand power drilling machine for the
fish plate bolts as well!
THIS MAY COME IN HANDY. I have found that cut-off wheels designed for
aluminium cut brass like butter, better than the general purpose
wheels.
I have also used my variable speed jig saws for cutting out shapes in
steel, brass and aluminium. (As usual I can not comment on how
techniques work on aluminum as this metal is not available in Oz
except in scrapped objects from the USA!)
One good turn deserves another.
Regards,
Ian
--- In 7x12minilathe@..., "rancerupp" <rupps@...> wrote:
Richard, don't laugh, but ( uh, ok, go ahead and laugh. :D ) I
mounted
a couple of cabinet hinges on a couple of pieces of plywood and
made my
own cut-off saw.
