On 20/08/2019 00:16, Bob La Londe wrote:
Periodically I make a part that requires sections of 1.5inch stainless
rod. They need to be consistently sized and the cut needs to decently
perpendicular.Â* It doesn't need to be aerospace accurate, but they
need to look good.Â* In the past I have sliced them with a parting
blade on the lathe, and knocked the burr off the edges with a file
while it parting.Â* Its not great, and I still need to lightly face the
parts.Â* I probably just need to try it and see, but I was wondering if
it might be faster to just section them to rough length on the
horizontal bandsaw, and then face them to length.Â* I guess I should go
look up some SFM numbers to see how fast I can saw cut 304.

I make various parts with tube or solid bar up to about 12mm so a bit
smaller than what you're doing. I use a slitting saw mounted on an arbor
held in my lathe spindle and a fixture to hold the material mounted in
the lathe tool post. Once set-up I can accurately turn out parts to
close length tolerances and square. Sometimes I run coolant sometimes I
just apply it manually. Cutting is almost always done with the power
feed and I usually do 100+ items at a time.