JasonPAtkins
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2010
- Location
- Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Hi all,
A local welder brought an unmarked bench shear in to be "adapted". I don't see how the blades that are on it are original to the machine, because they overlap each other a good 0.300". The only fix is to take thickness off of one or both of them and then resharpen them.
I started shaving thickness off on my manual surface grinder, but taking a thousandth off at a time got old REALLY fast.
The blade is about 3/4" thick, probably 1.5" x 8" or so.
Is there any possibility that I can take a few .050" passes with a carbide insert facemill to get close, and then go back to the grinder to finish up?
I don't know the manufacturer, alloy, or HT of the blades, but I imagine they must be pretty hard if they're meant to cut mild steel.
I can try it to find out, but would rather not ruin 6 inserts in the process if everyone already knows carbide won't be able to touch it, or will heat it enough to ruin the HT of the blade.
Thanks!
A local welder brought an unmarked bench shear in to be "adapted". I don't see how the blades that are on it are original to the machine, because they overlap each other a good 0.300". The only fix is to take thickness off of one or both of them and then resharpen them.
I started shaving thickness off on my manual surface grinder, but taking a thousandth off at a time got old REALLY fast.
The blade is about 3/4" thick, probably 1.5" x 8" or so.
Is there any possibility that I can take a few .050" passes with a carbide insert facemill to get close, and then go back to the grinder to finish up?
I don't know the manufacturer, alloy, or HT of the blades, but I imagine they must be pretty hard if they're meant to cut mild steel.
I can try it to find out, but would rather not ruin 6 inserts in the process if everyone already knows carbide won't be able to touch it, or will heat it enough to ruin the HT of the blade.
Thanks!