Do you worry about the chips getting into the bearings, etc of the tools? Bob Ammerman RAm Systems (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level software) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave King" To: Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [EE]: Drilling a square tube?? > At 04:29 PM 10/15/01 -0500, you wrote: > >I have often seen woodworking routers and other tools used to cut aluninum. > >By the way, a brave soul can cut 2 inch aluninum plate with a hand held > >circular saw. > > > >Tony > We cut up to about 3/4" 7075 and 6061-T6 plate with a table saw and a > good carbide blade. The only thing you have to watch for is the feed rate. > Once you get that down this leaves a surface that take a few swipes of a > file to debur. As long as you use carbide tipped tools you can get away > with using woodworking tools. > > Dave > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics