01 Abrasive Cutting Wheels

Tips for successful cutting

• Always clamp the material on both sides of the cut

• A courser wheel will remove material faster but give a lower quality surface finish

• A finer grit wheel will wear faster but give a higher quality surface finish

• The thinner the cutting blade, the better the surface finish but the more fragile in use

• In general ferrous materials are cut with a bonded aluminium oxide cutting blade whereas bonded silicon carbide cutting blades are used for non ferrous materials

• Use a soft blade (more adhesive particles, less bond) for hard materials and a hard blade for soft materials

Standard Range of Cutting Wheels

Resin bonded Aluminium Oxide (Al2O3) or Silicon Carbide (SiC)  cutting blades (wheels) with 32mm/1 1/4in central hole can be used with or without coolant. They are arranged in terms of hardness of material to be cut. The ultra thin cutting blades are most suitable for applications where a high quality cut surface is required with a minimum of kerf removal.

Cutting wheels are packed in quantities of 10

Smaller Diameter Resin Bonded Cutting Wheels

A range of small diameter cutting wheels for compact bench top cutting machines including low speed saws. Hole size is 1/2 inch but 32mm is available to special order. Can be used for wet or dry cutting.

Precision Cutting Wheels

These precision cutting wheels can be used only for wet cutting. They are manufactured to higher tolerances than resin wheels both on flatness and thickness.  Their reduced thickness means that they are good for cutting materials, both  ferrous and non ferrous metals where loss of material is important and quality of finish needs to be very good .The cool cutting gives a high quality finish and saves time on grinding and polishing. These wheels are especially useful for cutting stainless and titanium tube samples.

Smaller Diameter Precision Cutting Wheels

Choose a cutting wheel for an application

Choosing a cutting wheel from the descriptions above does not always give satisfactory results. The table below lists the actual materials to be cut and the approximate size of the pieces. The user mat find this a simpler method of choosing the correct cutting wheel. 

Trial Cutting Service

Many cutting applications in the materials laboratory require cutting blades outside the standard range described above.  In order to determine which blade is optimum for the user's application a cutting service is provided. This service is free and sufficient material should be sent to us so that a number of different blades can be trailed.  

Hole Adapters for other spindle diameters

The above range of cutting blades have 32mm holes. To fit them onto smaller spindles an adapter is required to effectively reduce the hole size.

Coolant Tanks & Coolant

2 sizes of recirculating coolant tanks are available for converting machines for wet cutting. The powerful 55lit/min recirculating pump is fitted on the tank lid and supplies coolant via 12.7mm/ 1/2 in tubing.

Coolant

A non frothy coolant which is Eco friendly. Request the MSDS sheet Dilution is approximately 40:1 water : coolant.

Product	Code
Emulself Eco EDC  1 litre	01-3120
Emulself Eco EDC  5 litres	01-3121

 

 

Quick Lock Vices RH & LH

Right hand or Left hand quick lock cam operated vices which have T bolts M6 to secure to a base plate. Front and rear jaws are detachable.

Two sizes are available:

Product	Code
RH Vice 63mm/2.5in capacity	01-3220
LH Vice 63mm/2.5in capacity	01-3221
RH Vice 95mm/3.75in capacity	01-3222
LH Vice 93mm/3.75in capacity	01-3223

Metlab Cutting Machines

Details of the full range of cutting machines available are shown elsewhere. A summary table is shown below together with two examples of this range.

 

Powercut 350 Floor Standing

Model	Max.Wheel Dia.	Cutting Power	Manual	Automatic	Vice Capacity	Comments
Labcut 250 Bench Top	250mm/10in	2.2KW/ 3 hp	Manual		63mm	Versatile cutting machine with many options
Econocut 300 Bench Top	300mm/12in	3KW/ 4 hp	Manual		70mm	Economically priced- good general met machine
Labcut 350 Floor Standing	350mm/14in	5.5KW/ 7.5 hp	Manual		95mm	Powerful cutting machine for larger sizes of material
Powercut 250 Floor Sranding	250mm/10in	2.2KW/3 hp	Manual /	Automatic	63mm	Powered cutting head with adjustable feed rate for reproducibility
Powercut 350 Floor Standing	350mm/10in	5.5KW/ 7.5hp	Manual /	Automatic	95mm	Heavy duty version of the Powercut 250 with powerful head motor

 

 

Powercut 350 Automatic/Manual Abrasive Cutting Machine- 350mm cutting wheels	Econocut 300 Abrasive Cutting Machine -250mm cutting wheels

Note: Base cabinets are available for all bench top models