On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:46:46 -0500, DougC
wrote:

-Like,,, without greatly hurting the blade?

I need some half-height 3/4x10 nuts. A regular nut sliced in half would
be just about perfect, but I dunno if it would ruin a bandsaw blade or
not (dry blade, no coolant). I also have an angle grinder w/cutoff
wheels, but the bandsaw would be somewhat of a more-controllable cut to do.

I also have some scrap metal and a 3/4-10 tap, but I have no method for
ensuring the tap enters perpendicular, and I need the nuts to sit flat.
I am guessing that the already-made nuts are straighter than what I
could manage to do...


No mill eh?

Clamp it in a good vise and grind it down with the angle grinder till
its flat with the top of the vise. Then start a bolt into it from the
unground side.

Cutting them with a hacksaw is intirely possible. It just takes a
while. Then you will have to grind them flat cause one seldom ever gets
a square cut with a hacksaw.


Gunner

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