Increasing productivity on your CUTOFF SAW

摘要

If you are sawing tube or pipe in substantial quantities, you most likely have a cutoff saw to do the work. As with all of your machinery, your goal is to get the most out of it, and that takes some special consideration.Tubes and pipes are hollow work-pieces, so each cut consists of three saw-ing operations-solid, thin-wall, and solid. As the blade starts the cut, it is sawing a solid; then it makes two thin-wall cuts simultaneously as it passes through the midsection; and last, it saws a solid again as the blade passes through the bottom. This operation sometimes is called an interrupted cut.The workpiece parameters affect not only the best saw design choice for tube and pipe, but also the blade, the cutting fluid, and its application. All of the compo-nents must work together to achieve the lowest cost per cut, thereby maximizing the productivity of the sawing operation.