new members here:) {long}

Hello my name is Cyril, my dad is Turk, we just came across this
group last night. My dad and i have several projects going, and tho
the cnc stuff is his thing more than mine, his hobby and mine,
Chainmail armour, have crossed:) He is working on a cnc for his zip
drive. has built it from ground up. slow going,,taken about a year.
Well he wants his next one to be a tad bit more fancy. Like a cnc
plasma cutter:) so we will be posting more qustions for help in what
directions we need to go for informations:)

But I though yall might have sone insite into to help with some
design ideas for something.



Like I said I make chainmail armour. (Like the shirts that kinghts,
thousands of little rings interwoven. It is a long process of making
the rings since a shirt can take 25,000 - 40,000 rings. Right now I
cut 3/16' 316L welding rods that have been wraped into a coil (think
of a spring with all the right touching.) I then use 8 in bolt
cutters to cut each ring. Now the ultimate goal is a machine that
will weave sheets of the chainmail. But for now we are just working
on cutting then quickly.

Here are a few design criteria:

metal taken away from the ring must be minimal. so rings are as round
as possible.

nice clean cuts. people have to wear it and burs cut:)

as fast a possible.

must be quiet. i don't live with my dad, live in an apartment so i
have to keep the noise down.

as small as possible.


Here is what we have tried so far.
Hi speed grinding: burned the alot of the other metals i use and gap
too big.

Bandsaw blades. (home desinged machine to cut the rings) gap is too
big. because the spring the bandsaw had to be made upsidedown. blades
are prone to breaking because the cetching on the rings and binding
up.

Jeweler's saw blades. too much noise, not enough cutting power for
tougher metals.

Things we are investigating:
Plasma cutting.
Laser cutting.
EMD Cutting.



So if any of yall have any ideas on a cutting process that might
work, any input would be appreciated.

Cyril