sawing stainless steel ?

Status Update:

Plan A worked. I figure either:
1) very good hacksaw blade,
2) very poor SS (Stainless Steel), or
3) Excellent sawing ability of operator.

I think 2 is out, I tried to dress it up with my grindstone and the metal sort of laughed at the stone, so that leaves a combination of 1 and 3.
thanks for your support, page 4 not needed. :)
bumpy

Ozlander wrote:
Could have had it cut by now.

Talking ain't goin' to cut it.

Lets not rush into this now.. We're only on page 3

Dave H M wrote:
"my thread title does say stainless"

It does say SS, and the title says stainless. :h

Getting interesting to me now.

:h

"my thread title does say stainless"

It does say SS, and the title says stainless. :h

Getting interesting to me now.

D.E.Bishop wrote:

Huntindog wrote:

D.E.Bishop wrote:
Bumpy, you could try the hack saw with the scrap your going to use to test the using your dremel and 4.5 angle grinder. I just cut some 1/4-20 all thread for battery hold down bolts and did it with a 12 point hacksaw blade. Of course I buy good quality British or USA made saw blades. If it works, it'll be faster than installing the 4.5" grinder disk.

All thread ,and stainless are worlds apart in what it takes to cut them.

Good quality stainless will eat saw blades up. BTDT

I guess that I just assumed as we were talking about Stainless, that everyone would figure out so was I. Bumpy didn't state he was using cutlery grade stainless, and I just figured he was using something he could buy at a good hardware store.

So I will say, I'm sorry for leaving out stainless in my description and I will agree with you that some stainless alloys are harder than the hubs of he!!. Sorry.

By the way what does "BTDT" stand for?

my thread title does say stainless
bumpy

Could have had it cut by now.

Talking ain't goin' to cut it.

BTDT = Been there, done that.

Huntindog wrote:

D.E.Bishop wrote:
Bumpy, you could try the hack saw with the scrap your going to use to test the using your dremel and 4.5 angle grinder. I just cut some 1/4-20 all thread for battery hold down bolts and did it with a 12 point hacksaw blade. Of course I buy good quality British or USA made saw blades. If it works, it'll be faster than installing the 4.5" grinder disk.

All thread ,and stainless are worlds apart in what it takes to cut them.

Good quality stainless will eat saw blades up. BTDT

I guess that I just assumed as we were talking about Stainless, that everyone would figure out so was I. Bumpy didn't state he was using cutlery grade stainless, and I just figured he was using something he could buy at a good hardware store.

So I will say, I'm sorry for leaving out stainless in my description and I will agree with you that some stainless alloys are harder than the hubs of he!!. Sorry.

By the way what does "BTDT" stand for?

I'm willing to bet that you won't need a Plan B. I've cut a lot of stainless steel rod with a hacksaw where I worked. Seems unlikely you've got an exotic alloy so a hacksaw should work fine.

just bought a 24 tooth bimetal hacksaw blade so might try that first. it does say stainless steel on the package??? after hacking away for an hour with that I can try plan B then C. don't know if a good blade in my vibrating tool (whatever you call them,multi function??? would work.
bumpy