"Searcher7" wrote in message
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Thanks everyone.

I'll have to give a couple of those ideas a try.

And speaking of hacksaw blades, I have to cut some down for use as
backing springs for some leaf switches similar to the one shown he
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...LeafSwitch.jpg

(I assume snips of some sort are the best tool for that job).

A hacksaw blade will wreck your snips. It's too hard.

My favorite tool for cutting hand hacksaw blades is a silicon-carbide cutoff
wheel in a Dremel. You will want to use some kind of abrasive cutter to
avoid damage to good steel cutters, and a little cutoff wheel is easy and
faster than most other methods.

If you're just cutting them off square, you can hold the blade in a vise and
break it off, and then grind off the rough edge on a bench grinder.

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Ed Huntress



Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

On Nov 3, 11:05 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"Wild_Bill" wrote in message

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Several of the guys in my high school machine shop class would anxiously
await the changing of the power hacksaw blade, so they could get the
discarded one to make a throwing knife.. by grinding away a lot of the
blade
on the honkin bigass pedestal grinder.

Mmmmm.. sparks

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WB
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...and a cloud of grinding dust. d8-)

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Ed Huntress

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message

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However, my experience with grinding the teeth off of a HSS
power-hacksaw
blade, and then shaping it, is that I eat up so much of the grinding
wheel
that I would have been better off buying one.

I just happen to have a box of unused Sandvik power-hacksaw blades and
some old grinding wheels.

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Ed Huntress