FYI to anybody who is unaware, wood cutting brazed carbide circular saw blades (mounted in el-cheapo miter saws, circular saws, or table saws) will cut aluminum wonderfully. Wear a face shield, as hot chips fly everywhere.
The places like 8020, Misumi, and some Open Builds resealers will cut the material to size for a small fee per cut. I do not have a cutoff saw and my hack saw skills would not make the nice square cuts. Mike Hoblinski N6IMF
Great information here!
Using angle stock certainly would be cheaper, but not everyone has the equipment to cut to length, drill/tap holes, etc... I do not have those tools, nor access to a maker space that does, which is why I ended up getting a openbeam "starter set" to build/experiment my man portable IC7100 setup. I like what I see in the openbuildspartstore!
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Roy Dean royldean@gmail.com wrote:
FYI to anybody who is unaware, wood cutting brazed carbide circular saw blades (mounted in el-cheapo miter saws, circular saws, or table saws) will cut aluminum wonderfully. Wear a face shield, as hot chips fly everywhere.
The places like 8020, Misumi, and some Open Builds resealers will cut the material to size for a small fee per cut. I do not have a cutoff saw and my hack saw skills would not make the nice square cuts. Mike Hoblinski N6IMF
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I keep starting and stopping. I printed all the parts but it was for V2 so I have to print V3. I ordered boards but it's been so long I don't know if they've been revised again. Are the V3 printed parts available for purchase anywhere? My club 3D printer is a bit of a hike for me.
Thanks, Frank kb1qzh
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:38 PM Don KB2YSI kb2ysi@gmail.com wrote:
Great information here!
Using angle stock certainly would be cheaper, but not everyone has the equipment to cut to length, drill/tap holes, etc... I do not have those tools, nor access to a maker space that does, which is why I ended up getting a openbeam "starter set" to build/experiment my man portable IC7100 setup. I like what I see in the openbuildspartstore!
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Roy Dean royldean@gmail.com wrote:
FYI to anybody who is unaware, wood cutting brazed carbide circular saw blades (mounted in el-cheapo miter saws, circular saws, or table saws)
will
cut aluminum wonderfully. Wear a face shield, as hot chips fly everywhere.
The places like 8020, Misumi, and some Open Builds resealers will cut the material to size for a small fee per cut. I do not have a cutoff saw and my hack saw skills would not make the nice square cuts. Mike Hoblinski N6IMF
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