Fabricating Aluminum Sprockets

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

It is.

Well then, it seems to me that if you have the right tip and dry air, it should work just fine. What is the width of a typical cut? You might want to throw the thing into something like a vibratory polisher when you are done.

[Madison]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Well then, it seems to me that if you have the right tip and dry air, it should work just fine. What is the width of a typical cut? You might want to throw the thing into something like a vibratory polisher when you are done.

Unfortunately, we've not had a chance to play with it yet. It was just installed in the lab last week and we're waiting for them to finish things up with a hood, shields and all of the other things we need to make it safe to operate.

We're just really excited about the potential to speed the process of cutting plate along. There are a lot of things we'd have like to have done last season, but we skimped on a lot because of how long it took to set up and run the mill.

[Andrew Blair]

For aluminum, it's important to have a really good cutter on your table. I assume it's PlasmaCam, or a knockoff. Our lab got one last year, and I was very excited to be able to cut out parts in house. However, this was not the case because the cutter was not of excellent quality, and while cutting Al, it just melted out of the cut path. A shop in town actually uses a special gas or gas mixture to facilitate plasma cut on aluminum.