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Offline Swarfing

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Thin grooves/ parting tip
« on: May 23, 2011, 12:36:03 PM »
Guys

I needed to make a very thin groove on a differential drive coupling on my sons RC car. This needed replacing because it was broke. The groove was for retaining a circlip that was only about 3mm accros. After pondering what i could use decided to grind down a Stanley blade. Put it into my parting tool holder and it worked a treat. I even parted the piece off afterwards and it stayed sharp enough to finish off a couple more. It works fine at slow speeds on mild steel, aluminium and even worked on a piece of semi hardened steel.

Hope this is helpful

Paul
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Offline JohnC

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Re: Thin grooves/ parting tip
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 01:30:31 PM »
That's neat.

 I've used a hacksaw blade ground with top rake on the teeth edge to cut thin grooves, but a Stanley blade is probably a bit stiffer.
John
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Offline John-Som

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Re: Thin grooves/ parting tip
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 03:04:59 PM »
Another variation which I have recently used is a blade from my power jig saw which at 1mm is thicker than a standard hacksaw blade. I also used one of these blades as a form of broach to cut a keyway in a gear wheel.

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