Ha! The first thing through my mind when you mentioned the size of holes, was... "oh, no! That's going to be a time consuming pain in the.... " but then I saw the mag drill and annular cutter, and it changed to... "whew! Thank God! " Those annular cutters work damn good, eh?I could drill 3.5 holes in the amount of time it took to cut one plate.View attachment 66264View attachment 66265
They work awesome!!! I used to drill all my holes with twist bits, including the 1-1/16" holes. For the cost of 2 of the big twist drills, I can buy a cutter that will long outlast them. I've got a 5 gallon bucket full of slugs that work great to plug the ends of round hand rail tubing.Ha! The first thing through my mind when you mentioned the size of holes, was... "oh, no! That's going to be a time consuming pain in the.... " but then I saw the mag drill and annular cutter, and it changed to... "whew! Thank God! " Those annular cutters work damn good, eh?
I usually order in 8/12 or 10/14 bi-metal blades. That saw does a pretty good job of getting through material about that size. I cut a lot of 1/4" material for mounting plates with it as well. I have an alligator type shear, but it tends to bend the backside piece due to the way it cuts.@1951 Ford what pitch blade are you using in the saw? I wouldn't have expected it to cut that fast...
That is pretty close to what my jet saw was like... at least the same principle. The coolant tank was about 4" deep, 6" wide, 12" long.... with a baffle in the center. The inlet to the tank is on top of one end. Coolant has to flow over the baffle to get to the pump. When the pump went to heck, I replaced it a couple of times with these...I also keep the saw blade sprayed with pb blaster to keep it lubricated. I have thought about building a coolant setup for that saw. Just trying to work through the filtration issue. One idea was to create a vertical pipe trap with a screw on cap on the bottom and a baffle to help settle the saw shavings down to the bottom. The coolant would come in on one side of the baffle and the return line back to the pump would come out the other side. I'd put the return about 3/4 of the way to the top.
I'm probably making this way more complicated than it needs to be.
I haven't watched this whole video. I've seen a cold cut saw vs chop saw video in the past, and searched this one. The first 30 seconds of this video shows the difference.
Nope, no diamonds! The blade is carbide, so it is significantly harder than 'most' steel that you would cut with it.Diamond blades on that cold saw or somthin?
Figure it would hafta be harder then the steel....
Yeah, my truck driving is just to haul around the stuff I make, and haul steel. I've got a little welding shop, and we make dumpsters and roll off boxes. This plasma table, 5 x 10, will get used as a 5 x 10 for a while, and hopefully soon, get 're-sized' to a 6 x 10. The point of it, is to be able to replace, and get rid of, my squaring shear. 10' x 3/8" capacity...@CharlieK Whatcha doin where ya need a setup like that? You doin a lotta steel work?
Seems like you've mentioned the centrifugal filters in the past, but not sure what the context was...? I'm having problems visualizing how a centrifugal separator or filter would work when much of the items being filtered out, are lighter than the water they are in. Wouldn't happen to have a video or article about it would you?We had good luck with centrifugal filters for taking resist out of chemistry.
dropped it onto a 50 micron conveyor screen and dumped it into the waste water for the water treatment department to handle further.
they’d compression filter it down and make cake out of it for disposal as non-hazardous waste.
Nope, never mentioned them here before.Seems like you've mentioned the centrifugal filters in the past, but not sure what the context was...? I'm having problems visualizing how a centrifugal separator or filter would work when much of the items being filtered out, are lighter than the water they are in. Wouldn't happen to have a video or article about it would you?
If the lint or cotton, was heavier than the water, I know I could make a cyclone to spin it out... Not sure how to do that when it's lighter...