Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] new members here:) {long}

Along the line of using the mill as Bill suggests, you could use a lathe to
wrap the springs around a threaded rod (like we do when making springs).
Then place the assembly along one of the table grooves and clamp at both
ends. With one cut on the mill you could make a lot of rings!

Smoke

> Yo Cyril;
>
> Do you have a mill?
>
> Wheather you do or don't, you could hot rap the rod around some steel

round

> stock, sort of like the line on a fishing reel, using a torch if you don't

have

> a forge to heat the rod. Then you can do it old style, by using a hot

chisel to

> cut the rings, or let it cool, clamp or even tack weld the ends to the rod

to

> the round stock, and if you have a mill, use a slitting saw to cut them

all in

> one pass. I'm not sure what the limit is, but slitting saws make a _very_
> narrow cut.
>
> Bill
>