Hardened Steel Cutting Wheel

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Hardened steel cutting wheel.

How to cut hardened steel by http www ultimatehandyman co uk steel can be hardened by having a high carbon content heat treatment or by work hardening. From past expirience bolt cutters don t play nice with hardened steel p recommendations. Like bakrch says just cut it. Ideal for cutting grooving and trimming all kinds of metal.

Any recommendations on how to cut it. After chewing up 1 hacksaw blade to it s dull tomb i m fairly certain it s made from hardened steel. A glass cutter may use a diamond to create the split but more commonly a small cutting wheel made of hardened steel or tungsten carbide 4 6 mm in diameter with a v shaped profile called a hone angle is used. Oh and it s a decent lock picking isn t an option.

According to this video from ultimate handyman that s because hardened steel is often harder than the steel in hacksaw blades and similar toothed saw blades. Hardened steel can be tough to cut. One wheel cut through 1 4 hardened steel twice at 45 degrees to the surface and nearly made a third 90 degree cut to the surface before it gave up the ghost. More items to explore.

In fact your best bet for cutting hardened steel may be an angle grinder with a cutoff wheel. This cutting disc is constructed from a hard abrasive used for slicing and cutting metal including hardened steel. I ve bored bearing inner races i ve cut a ball from a big ball bearing i ve cut the hard portion of hss drill bits i ve threaded induction hardened shafting the carbide does not last very long the chips come off as tiny blue curls. The greater the hone angle of the wheel the sharper the angle of the v and the thicker the piece of glass it is designed to cut.

This steel was 8 wide. Carbide is really hard. If a somewhat larger amount of money is available to be spent on cutting materials the evolution metal cutting saw is a fast and efficient tool that will cut through hardened steel with relative ease making clean cuts and retaining the hardness of the steel. This cutting disc is constructed from a hard abrasive used for slicing and cutting metal including hardened steel.