Milling machine slitting saw demo

Just a quick video showing a use for a slitting or slotting saw cutting steel.

Later i will do some more relevent uses for this tool.

[tboost]

Thanks Roy. The white liquid is "Soluble oil" mixed with water = coolant. You can use the oil neat for thread cutting, drilling etc. or mix it with water like here and flood the tool. Soluble oil is mixed with water at a ratio of 10:1 (10parts water 1part coolant) or 15:1 or 20:1 depending on what you are doing. I usually just guess it at about 15:1 ratio for general use. A 5litre bottle will generally make about 100litres of coolant which is alot.

[earlmiller]

I flood coolant as well and feed witj consistent gentle feed… I’ve cut a lot of 303 ss with what seemed your speed n feed…. Still using same blade

[earlmiller]

I don’t kno what material that was but I assume mild steel… if so… I liked you surface speed… clipping along pretty good… enough coolant… imo you had it pegged. I run approximately that speed on 303 ss n 12L14. Great video!!! I think that was good machining right there.

[rlewis]

Fascinating! Learning new things every time I watch your videos; like the way you reposition the cutter using the X/Y access controls to "get around" - cut - the circumference of the pipe. After you showed the cut off part, I thought it would make a good collar, with the addition of a set screw or two.
Novice Question 1: What is milky, coolant you use in this process?
Thanks for sharing you knowledge and skills.
Roy Lewis Buffalo, New York USA

[tboost]

Yeah i know.. RPM was perhaps a little fast for steel, but worked ok in the end... even with that mild chatter, there was no vibration coming through the machine or vice.

[daveyb]

Gaylee Saws will give you speeds and feeds for cnc or manual machines also

[sameworks]

Είσαι ΕΡΑΣΙΤΕΧΝΗΣ και ΕΠΙΚΙΝΔΥΝΟΣ για τον εαυτό σου και τους γύρω!!!!

[tboost]

Yeah its 72teeth, but with flood coolant, it shouldve been ok. Maybe rpm too high. I was in a kind of a hurry and this was the only option at the time. I think flex in the blade was causing most of the chatter.

[tboost]

I have already destroyed this saw because i fed it too fast into another piece of steel. Theres not real info for feeds and speeds for manual machines, so its a little trial and error. I have a pretty good feel now on how fast i can cut in steel and alloy.

[daveyb]

Gaylee saws solid carbide is the way to go.

[tboost]

That's right, speed was too high for this, but wanted to test and see how it would cope. Result is for 1mm thick blade on steel, rpm is too high.

[kleinesmaenchen]

Yea well more feed doesn't solve the problem always.... I don't really have much experience with the saw