If I was going to do it I'd go rent a tub saw that flooring techs use to
cut ceramic and stone tile of all sorts.
Slow turning diamond impregnated blade soaked with water pumped on the
blade during the cut.
If it'll cut granite smooth as a baby's butt, and it does, it'll cut
ferrite.
On 7/5/2016 8:58 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
Yes it is possible with a diamond saw in a surface grinder. However,
it is very messy and and the dust/slurry is very abrasive so the
grinder owner may say "no way". We machined a lot of ferrite many
years ago for recording heads and pretty quickly the grinders were
trashed.
You need very flat and smooth mating surfaces (see a big clamp on) as
this mating changes the magnetic properties of the core by inserting
an air gap. Obvious it can be made to work since #31 clamp ons are
very effective if kept tightly closed. A tungsten carbide blade will
cut ferrite in your bandsaw but I think the cut will be so rough as to
be useless. A diamond blade in a cut off saw may work if it last long
enough without water cooling.
I think you need a bigger NEMA enclosure as any of these techniques
will cost a lot more with probably poor results.
Grant KZ1W
On 7/5/2016 6:05 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
I have a one off application where I want to get 1-2 additional
2.4 inch OD cores
onto coax, but dont want to take the existing CMC assy all apart.
The big clamp
on is aprx 1.5 inches long..and is too long for this application.
It’s a tight squeeze inside the
nema box, and coax is already silver soldered at both ends to both
connectors. Dual silver
braids have been separated at each end of the RG-393 coax, and
bonded to 7-16 Dins.
Can a type 31 2.4 inch OD core be cut clean in half....like in a
bandsaw ? I have a
vertical bandsaw with a metal cutting blade in... with 3 x speeds,
80-120-200 feet per
minute. The idea here was..IF a core can be cut in half, to place
the 2 x halves back around the
coax turns... and then either glue em back together..or perhaps use
a ty-rap around the circumference.
If cores cant be cut, I will have to disassemble the entire assy,
and start from scratch, which Id
rather not have to do, pita.
Jim VE7RF
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