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Clamp a framing square to it, and use a utility knife on it. Cut cut cut cut a zillion times.
Remove and hold the cut line near a benchtop edge, and force it down hopefully breaking it.
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(05-31-2018, 09:02 AM)Mike Brady Wrote: Slightly off-topic, but how do you guys cut spring steel ( for saw plates and card scrapers)?
Yeah, aviation snips if the cut is small; score-and-snap if it's a longer cut. Wear gloves. When it does snap, it can really snap!
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(05-31-2018, 03:14 PM)Bibliophile 13 Wrote: Yeah, aviation snips if the cut is small; score-and-snap if it's a longer cut. Wear gloves. When it does snap, it can really snap!
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Scored the steel with a cut-off wheel, then clamp it in a vise {between two pieces of angle iron if it's a longer piece} Then snapit off....You CAN cut all the way through the steel but it saves time and effort it you snap it off..
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(05-30-2018, 11:51 AM)Aram Wrote: For a 12" high tension hacksaw, Starrett blades or Lenox blades? Or is it a toss-up? I mostly use them for cutting brass stock (1/8" up to 1/2" or less), and occasional pieces of O1 steel, not very thick.
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Brand is not important as type. Brass, Aluminum, zinc, and other soft metals and materials can use steel blades. Bi-metal for steel and other hard metals. Bi-metal is all I bother to stock in my shop. Works on all cuttable metals. Pay attention to the number of teeth as well. The thinner the material the more teeth needed.
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(05-31-2018, 01:44 PM)Stwood_ Wrote: Clamp a framing square to it, and use a utility knife on it. Cut cut cut cut a zillion times.
Remove and hold the cut line near a benchtop edge, and force it down hopefully breaking it.
What he said.... Umm.... Yeh.
Actually, I cut tubes of copper, brass, aluminum; sheet metal with the bi-metal when desperate. They're pretty good on errant nails, too; better than a Japanese pull saw. I did use one to cut fine dovetails. For scrapers, I call TGIAG.
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Starret are available locally and work great, so I only use them.
As for cutting spring steel, i use a dremel with a cutting wheel. Cut part way in then snap apart.
