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Help: Best method of cutting 3mm stainless steel rod???
Anything special I need to keep in mind?? Making axles for a G scale Archbar truck. Thanks!!
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Help: Best method of cutting 3mm stainless steel rod???
I'd be trying a small cut off wheel in a Dremel or similar........I don't think any of the hobby razor saws would touch it......lol. *NM*
This, one thing to add...clamp tightly in a vise very close to where the cut will be made. File or grind the cut end as desired while it is still clamped *NM*
X2 had to learn this the hard way *NM*
Depending on its size and density you might use a tubing cutter to score the perimeter, then use a padded vise to hold and it cut it off with a fine toothed quality hacksaw blade. *NM*
Doh! - *to hold it and cut it off* *NM*
You will flat-out RUIN any tool made from HSS, like saws, nippers, tubing cutters, etc. Carbide cuts it, as do diamond-coated tools. Best thing to use is an cut-off wheel made from aluminum oxide or silicon carbide. Dremel makes them in many sizes,
