[meteorite-list] Sawing
From: wrecks463 <wrecks463_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:24 2004 Message-ID: <002701c1c24c$e478a760$bba10044_at_tc.ph.cox.net> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01C1C212.37D6ABE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello People, Can anybody give me some hints on a good way to saw up an iron = meteorite? I spent 2 hours hackin away at a campo del rusto with little luck. Is a = carbide tipped blade the way to go here? I noticed that it would saw = good then hit a hard spot,then saw,then stop when it hit a spot that = just stopped all together. I tested the rockwell hardness and it came = out to less than 20 (that must of been a soft place). I figured 30 = minutes per cut...Ha! Any advice would be greatly apprieciated. =20 Thanks, Rex ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01C1C212.37D6ABE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello People,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Can anybody give me = some hints=20 on a good way to saw up an iron meteorite?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I spent 2 hours hackin away at a campo = del rusto=20 with little luck. Is a carbide tipped blade the way to go here? I = noticed that=20 it would saw good then hit a hard spot,then saw,then stop when it = hit a=20 spot that just stopped all together. I tested the rockwell hardness and = it came=20 out to less than 20 (that must of been a soft place). I figured 30 = minutes per=20 cut...Ha! Any advice would be greatly apprieciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2> &nbs= p;  = ; =20 Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2> &nbs= p;  = ; = =20 Rex</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01C1C212.37D6ABE0-- Received on Sat 02 Mar 2002 07:46:44 PM PST |
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