Bang on John , cold cuts are the only way to go with this "Plastic Steel" .
Brian.
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Originally Posted by John0z
LewisM,
Aluminium is easy to cut, especially if you have a bandsaw. On the subject of needing a lathe etc - it isn't quite that simple. In 2007, I also decided that I needed a lathe to do things around the house and for astronomy. Then to do a particular thing, I needed another tool or cutting bit - and now 5 years on - I realize that I have spent $7000 and still haven't quite made my first spur gear as yet, but did make a few things along the way. Right now I am restoring an old Tasco 5VTE that I picked up the other day. It needs a few pieces to fix up the mount, so am designing and making parts to make it functional since I don't know what the original parts looked like.
I could buy a lot of gear for that $7000, but I am almost there - just have to make some T-nuts and then my dividing gear will fit and I can start making a spur gear. (Soon, except that I had my calculations wrong and ended up with involute gear cutters that are a bit large - another $249 will fix that!)
-John
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