aluminum plates and profiles

[Dr. Davis]

Just out of curiosity, why do you say cutting aluminum is an awful job?
It has been my experience that, so long as you have a fine-toothed metal
cutting blade 3/8 inches wide (I had one made for a 14 inch bandsaw for
$10), a relatively low-power bandsaw works just fine.  And while it does
create aluminum "sawdust", it does not send it flying like a circular saw
does.  If you buy or make a ripfence, then cutting nice square panels is
quite easy.  The edges need only a minimal amount of smoothing.  Anyway,
just my opinion.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Czech <martin.czech at intermetall.de>
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 9:27 AM
Subject: aluminum plates and profiles


>Hello,
>
>I just got an answer from Schaeffer Apparatebau (these people do engraved
>front panels). I asked if they could also cut aluminum plates for the
>other 5 sides of a module box, and also alu profiles in order to connect
>front panel and the 5 other sides.  Well, they can do this, but since
>they have no saw but only a computer controlled engraving machine this
>can get very expensive. OTOH aluminum cutting is an awful job, I guess
>a proper saw (be it circular or not) would cost about 600 DM.
>
>Does anybody know a shop in Germany or nearby where I can get my aluminum
>cut?
>
>m.c.
>