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kaaboom_99
01-11-2002, 04:12 AM
A friend of mine has recently stopped over to inspect my NEW PRT96. As he is a knife maker hobbyist (see where this is going?) he asked me if I could cut out his knife profiles in stainless steel. I told him that I couldn't see why this wasn't possible. My question is: Does anyone have any experience cutting stainless with their machine. What kind of tooling, feedrates and special considerations do I need to be mindful of?
Thanks friends

shuttle
01-13-2002, 11:58 PM
Stainless is very hard. A router is not the tool, you will need a plasma cutter.
You can do aluminum or brass with a router, but very slowly.