Cutting Spring Steel Sheet

Thicker steel like pipes tubes and plates may require the use of power saws and torches.

Cutting spring steel sheet.

Precision steel warehouse inc is an iso 9001 2015 certified steel service center founded in 1940. This demo proves that spring steel can be cut on a hand shear. Shop a large range of spring steel sheet at msc industrial supply. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

Instead of using a pencil a magic marker or soapstone kevin caron suggests. After spending the summer working on my l e. Thin gauge steel like sheet metal can be cut with a large variety of tools. Saws and torches can also be used on thin steel but are impractical choices unless you re cutting high volume or need to cut steel often.

Tempered spring steel is commonly referred to as high carbon steel and is useful for a number of applications including use in springs and steel tapes. Blue tempered and polished spring steel. It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool. Hot metal chips will fly everywhere.

Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. I left off on that project being stuck for leaf springs for the trucks but i have now found a source in canada for 1095 hardened and tempered blue spring steel from 0 003 and up. Any self respecting shop not an aluminum siding installer with a floor shear would easily be able to cut 3 8 wide strips as long as the width capacity of the shear. 1074 1075.

In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. Our products include stainless steel low carbon sheet and strip coated metals and both annealed and tempered spring steel we offer a wide variety of material processing services such as slitting material to width cutting to length and performing various edge conditioning processes. American i have finally returned to working on my 7 5 gauge 1909 streetcar. 002 through 125 widths in stock.

You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. After seeing printrbot simple metal heated bed kit i quite like the spring steel pei surface so i decided to make my own. Msc industrial supply is here to support all your metalworking and maintenance repair needs with over 1 million products in stock and ready to ship today.