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Unread 04-26-2017, 09:46 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Olle View Post
Laser might work?
I've seen on The Science Channel/How It's Made that Lasers and plasma cutters can be dilated to a thin beam and complex shapes cut out of steel plate, but I haven't seen anything thick or variably-thickness/stacked layers like the C96 cut...

Because of the variation in thickness as the Laser or plasma beam goes along, I'm guessing that a constant feed-speed wouldn't work...

And a thin/large diameter grinding/cutting wheel would heat up quickly and leave heat scars...Maybe with water-cooling???

Surface grinding would do the job, but again, you'd lose half the metal...
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