Set it on center, set your depth of cut, set your speed and feed, cut. What
more do you want?

"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
Is there a "kink" for setting up a slitting saw to saw through
round bar stock along the axis, so that the slot is exactly
across a diameter? (I presume this to be a similar problem to
setting up accurately for cross-drilling)

This is actually a Ham Radio application; I wish to make
up some very large banana-type plugs from the 1/4" round
bar stock that I have in small quantities. For this, I will need
to saw two diameters in a cross shape, and then splay
out the leaves slightly to make a springy and rubbing contact.

That's the question, how do you set it on center?

--

73
Hank WD5JFR
"CW" wrote in message
...
Set it on center, set your depth of cut, set your speed and feed, cut.
What
more do you want?

"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
Is there a "kink" for setting up a slitting saw to saw through
round bar stock along the axis, so that the slot is exactly
across a diameter? (I presume this to be a similar problem to
setting up accurately for cross-drilling)

This is actually a Ham Radio application; I wish to make
up some very large banana-type plugs from the 1/4" round
bar stock that I have in small quantities. For this, I will need
to saw two diameters in a cross shape, and then splay
out the leaves slightly to make a springy and rubbing contact.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:46:43 GMT, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:

That's the question, how do you set it on center?

Hi Hank,

It seems it's not how, but how well. The how is trivial. The how
well is more a matter of a stock of ¼ inch which is sacrificed to
lumbering gross tools. Modern machines just make errors faster when
it is obviously within the scope of simpler hand tools and jigs. More
time has been expended in the sterile scribblings of what could be, in
place of actually getting it done.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

How do you propose to set it on "center"? (English speakers
spell that as, "centre"!). That is the nub of my enquiry.


"CW" wrote in message
...
Set it on center, set your depth of cut, set your speed and feed, cut.
What
more do you want?
"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
Is there a "kink" for setting up a slitting saw to saw through
round bar stock along the axis, so that the slot is exactly
across a diameter? (I presume this to be a similar problem to
setting up accurately for cross-drilling)
This is actually a Ham Radio application; I wish to make
up some very large banana-type plugs from the 1/4" round
bar stock that I have in small quantities. For this, I will need
to saw two diameters in a cross shape, and then splay
out the leaves slightly to make a springy and rubbing contact.

"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
How do you propose to set it on "center"? (English speakers
spell that as, "centre"!). That is the nub of my enquiry.


Well, if you have "stock", and it's a small thing of which you're making
many, you get a method that allows both measured increments and a locking
system. You do a test, and adjust, so that once it's good enough, you just
shove the stock in and slice it.

If it's a one-off that has much time/money/work already into it, you use the
same arrangement but plan and measure as best you can first.

Stupid boy.

"jtaylor" wrote in message
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"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
How do you propose to set it on "center"? (English speakers
spell that as, "centre"!). That is the nub of my enquiry.


Well, if you have "stock", and it's a small thing of which you're making
many, you get a method that allows both measured increments and a locking
system. You do a test, and adjust, so that once it's good enough, you
just
shove the stock in and slice it.

If it's a one-off that has much time/money/work already into it, you use
the
same arrangement but plan and measure as best you can first.

There are various methods. First, you have to specify what kind of equipment
you are using. You never did say. BTW, American speakers spell it center. We
left England so we were free to do it a better way.

"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
How do you propose to set it on "center"? (English speakers
spell that as, "centre"!). That is the nub of my enquiry.


"CW" wrote in message
...
Set it on center, set your depth of cut, set your speed and feed, cut.
What
more do you want?
"Airy R.Bean" wrote in message
...
Is there a "kink" for setting up a slitting saw to saw through
round bar stock along the axis, so that the slot is exactly
across a diameter? (I presume this to be a similar problem to
setting up accurately for cross-drilling)
This is actually a Ham Radio application; I wish to make
up some very large banana-type plugs from the 1/4" round
bar stock that I have in small quantities. For this, I will need
to saw two diameters in a cross shape, and then splay
out the leaves slightly to make a springy and rubbing contact.