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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] is offline
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John fired this volley in
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You can stack the cutters and get just about any size you need. I

have
about 160 lbs of cutters stored in the back.


Apparently with cheap Chinkalloy cutters, stacking two 1" cutters end-to-
end doesn't get you anything smaller... I tried. The stupid math keeps
coming out 1 TIMES 2 instead of 1 divided by 2. But they're cheap
cutters... probably defective cutters. I'm sure that good American
cutters would divide by length when stacked.

The VAR who actually _does_ the conversion of that stock probably doesn't
know how to use slitting cutters. And they aren't wealthy enough to have
cutters "stored in the back", they have to keep theirs in use.

But I still believe them when they say they cannot slit anything narrower
than 1", I tend to believe them.

LLoyd