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06-17-2005, 02:44 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: scotland
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|  tools what do you guys use to cut your plates for the custom chassis i have aquired some stainless steel plates and i want to know what is the best tool to cut with  |
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06-17-2005, 03:58 PM
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| TCS/Holmes Hobbies   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Burnsville
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|  I use a band saw, with a metal specific blade. (p.s. there is a tools and procedures forum ;) |
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06-18-2005, 12:43 AM
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| 2006 2.2 National Champ   Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Driving my R/C rototiller
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| Unless you have access to a mill, then band saw is probably your best bet. Use a fine tooth blade, if the blade is too aggressive (coarse) then you'll end up breaking the teeth off it. |
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06-18-2005, 08:48 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Colorado
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| Best way to cut stainless, is to let someone else cut it for you.  A Bandsaw will work Ok if you use a good fine-tooth, bi-metal blade, but cutting stainless without lots of coolant will dull it quickly. Slow speeds and heavy feed rates with sufficient emulsion lubricant will help prevent rapid dulling of saw teeth. I haven’t tried them yet, but this company offers cut-off discs just for cutting Stainless. http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/28970/1106 Oxy-Acetylene is almost useless for cutting Stainless. Not recommended. Abrasive cutting will work, but leaves an edge that needs to be dressed up. My Dad used to use carbon-arc with a stick welder to cut stainless panels. Plasma and Laser are the two methods used commercially now. For fastening: Rivets & bolts work, but drilling the holes will wreck havoc with your drill bits. Silver solder works fine, just be sure to tell your welding supplier what you are doing, so they sell you the correct grade silver solder for stainless. You can also weld it (stick, MIG, TIG). You can use oxy/acetylene to braze it with a braze paste for stainless. I wouldn’t recommend Stainless for RC work. It’s heavy and a PITA to work with. But…. If you’re going to build a Pulse-Jet to power your crawler, then Stainless is your friend.  |
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06-18-2005, 01:45 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: scotland
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| yes but i dont have access to a band saw or any thing apart from basic tools like jigsaw, drill, dremel(but i think the motor is on its way out), hacksaw(but dont know which blades to get. any info would be appreciated i will be cutting 2mm thick stainless steel that i have cut outs of 6"x6" that i acquired for free,  i have my chassis all drawn up i just need to get it cut |
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06-19-2005, 07:01 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Longmont, CO
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| Drill, hacksaw, file and lots of sweat. |
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06-20-2005, 05:14 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: scotland
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| cool i will get started then, i will reply if my arms dont fall off doing it or shoot myself due to not getting anywhere lol |
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06-20-2005, 06:54 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Orlando, Florida
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06-21-2005, 05:09 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: scotland
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no you read wrong i got a drill jigsaw and dremel basic tools i got not all this expensive equipment like band saws and lathes | |
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06-21-2005, 07:38 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Orlando, Florida
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| oh sry..... i saw the "apart from".. do you have a mill? |
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06-25-2005, 06:05 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: scotland
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| nope but my grandad gave me a shot of a angle grinder with metal cutting discs so im just going to use that then blowtorch round the sides of the finished products so i get that blue/purple/yellow weldy look on the steel |
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06-25-2005, 07:22 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: S Oregon.
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| i dont think you can cut SS with a torch |
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06-30-2005, 12:47 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: scotland
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| who said i was cutting it with a torch????? i am heating the metal up round the sides so i get the "burnt metal" look all the way round, its like when you weld there is the blue purple colours round the weld where the metal has been heated that hot thta is the look i am going for, a little like this http://home.bak.rr.com/pcwelding/fil...weld%2001A.JPG Last edited by racecarking123; 06-30-2005 at 12:51 PM. |
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07-03-2005, 05:23 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: May 2005 Location: tacosville
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| any thing with a metal specific blade |
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