Tube cutting on lathe
On Thu, 10 May 2012 04:09:17 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote:
Tom Gardner mars@tacks wrote:
We use 2" x .049 wall tube cut 4" and deburred. We also use three
shorter lengths but in small quantities. I usually get 200' and send it
out. For the short lengths, we cut the tube on a bandsaw then deburr
each end, inner and outer, in a lathe.
Would it work if I slide 1' pieces onto a mandrel in the lathe and used
a pizza cutter type wheel in the cross slide to part the tube? Kind of
like a pipe cutter.
You want to cut long pieces of tubing into 1 foot ones, then cut those up
more on a lathe?
Do those pieces then get cut up again on some other machine?
bigger question - is it a big-assed lathe that you can feed the 2"
pipe through the spindle? Would definitely simplify things if it is.
In my last post I was ASSuming that was the case.
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