On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:11:06 -0800, "Harold and Susan Vordos"
wrote:


The fact that diamond dissolves into steel, destroying the diamond, is well
known, and published in literature from Norton. Research on the subject was
conducted back in the early 50's, as I recall. Running diamond on steel at
elevated temperature, such as high speed grinding, is death on diamonds.
You're smart to avoid doing so.



You _can_ cut steel with diamond. You just have to run it so slow that it
doesn't heat up. The down side of this is that it's slow :-(


Mark Rand
RTFM