Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101
I'm Bob and today I want to revisit the Evolution saw.
I've been using it now for about a month and a half in my warehouse
and I've been running some production stuff through it.
I wanted to give you the do's and don'ts of this saw.
So let's get started!
I've basically established, at this point, the do's and don'ts with the Evolution 380 (for myself)
and what I've learned is that cutting a piece of steel like this, like we showed you in our last video,
if you want to see that you can go back to my last video - my original video on the Evolution 380.
Cutting steel, structural steel, large sizes of steel, i-beams, no problem.
Cutting threaded rod of this size, this is 1/2"-13 threaded rod, about 3 foot long.
You know you can cut this it'll cut it nice and clean, perfect finish when you're all said and done.
So doesn't matter if it's stainless, zinc plated alloy, etc.
It all cuts just fine in larger diameters.
However, I wanted to show you anything small, tiny, let's say #4-40, #6-32 widths, or diameters, #8-32 get a little bit
hairy and dangerous with this saw. Because this saw runs at such a low rpm,
it wants to grab the product when they're too small in diameter like these here.
These here these are our #6-32 threaded rods.
I also have some #8-32 they've run through this,
I'm sorry, that was the #8-32 threaded rod and these are #6-32 threaded rod that I have here.
They're very small and thin. The saw, when you go to cut this will,
even if you put it in the brace, will grab the stock and it will actually rip it or bend it right out of the vise.
Small threaded rod, in diameter, the saw will grab it and rip it.
These are not to be used in the saw.
I'm also cutting some threaded rod - 5/16"-18
and I was cutting this threaded rod today and I just
wanted to show you that the machine actually, the blade, grabbed the product
and brought it up into the shroud area.
You can see, I don't know if you can see it in the camera, but you can see how chopped up the threaded rod is.
Now, granted, I just cut 700 pieces of this product and only one got caught up in the saw,
but it also can be, you know, very dangerous it can throw that at you.
You can get hurt. So you've got to make sure you wear protective gloves, eye protection,
along with ear protection.
I just want to show you this also.
That happened to me.
So what I'm going to do now is, I have this project I'm working on.
700 pieces of this 5/16"-18 threaded rod and I'm going to say to you that this is only an alloy steel - zinc plated.
It doesn't cut this as clean as it would cut a 1/2" or a 3/8 threaded rod.
I'm going to demonstrate that to you.
So let's do that now.
So for this project that I'm doing for a customer, I have this jig set up.
Basically I had to do 700 cuts at 7 inches long.
I set this jig up and I just bring the product right to the edge of that track which is great
because the nice thing about using a piece of track as a jig is that it's movable. It moves.
And by it being able to move, should a piece get jammed, it's not going to lock up on the blade.
It's just going to toss it or bend or give in a little bit.
It's the perfect stuff for a jig when you're trying to cut things like this
that are better steel.
I'm putting on my ear protection right now.
Trying to preserve my ears for a while longer.
I'm going to go through this threaded rod I'm cutting and I make several cuts for you.
You can watch and see how it cuts this 5/16"-18 threaded rod and you can get a feel for yourself of what I'm talking about.
Now it does cut this okay, but it doesn't cut it clean so it needs cleanup after we're all said and done.
Not like 3/8" - it does cut that clean.
1/2", anything larger in size, it does cut it clean and you can put a nut right on.
So let's go!
I'm down to the last piece here, which the last pieces, has like a 1/2" too long.
So I'm going to cut that little piece off there.
Let's slide it in here.
The thing is that you want to watch out for this
and what you end up with is one of these little pieces that I have here.
That little piece gets thrown around the room.
It gets caught up in the blade and it flies around
and I think most of this happens just because the blade is moving so slow and it grabs the material.
So I just want to bring that to you and you'll watch this piece fling as soon as I cut through it.
So that that's basically it. I have all my parts that are 7 inches long
and
I just want to bring those points to you and thanks for watching.
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