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I picked up a couple 4' x 4' sheets of 1/4" plate at the scrapyard some time back, with plans for a small fab table, something to slide machinery around on, and a couple tool stands etc. It was primed gray, which for some dumb reason seemed like an advantage at the time.
Regardless it was clean, straight, plate at scrap price in semi manageable sections.
Yesterday I was working on a fab table and a grinder stand. For the fab table I decided to use the nicest straightest sheet at the dimension I found it, roughly 48"x 48". Unfortunately, the primer on it was now an obvious issue, since I didn't want to be inhaling constant paint fumes from burning it. So I started stripping. Thank god!
Under all that gray thick primer, on top of the mill scale, in an acetone haze, I started to see letters form, as I scraped and scraped sloppy desolving paint.... Hardox 500! Plain as day.
I had previously planned to start bandsawing a section out of the other piece I had, for the grinder stand, before deciding I was too lazy to rig up a stand and rollers to saw the big 4x4 sheet. This is a circumstance where laziness paid serious dividends. You see, Hardox 500, is apparently hardened plate with a Brinell hardness of 500, which according to the chart I checked is like 50 RC!
Needless to say, my bandsaw blade would have been raped.
Anybody have any thoughts on what else would be ideal for the other piece of this? Actually I'm pretty sure there are a few more pieces at the yard..
Anyway, just a story from my day, wanted to relay it, not sure why.
Regardless it was clean, straight, plate at scrap price in semi manageable sections.
Yesterday I was working on a fab table and a grinder stand. For the fab table I decided to use the nicest straightest sheet at the dimension I found it, roughly 48"x 48". Unfortunately, the primer on it was now an obvious issue, since I didn't want to be inhaling constant paint fumes from burning it. So I started stripping. Thank god!
Under all that gray thick primer, on top of the mill scale, in an acetone haze, I started to see letters form, as I scraped and scraped sloppy desolving paint.... Hardox 500! Plain as day.
I had previously planned to start bandsawing a section out of the other piece I had, for the grinder stand, before deciding I was too lazy to rig up a stand and rollers to saw the big 4x4 sheet. This is a circumstance where laziness paid serious dividends. You see, Hardox 500, is apparently hardened plate with a Brinell hardness of 500, which according to the chart I checked is like 50 RC!
Needless to say, my bandsaw blade would have been raped.
Anybody have any thoughts on what else would be ideal for the other piece of this? Actually I'm pretty sure there are a few more pieces at the yard..
Anyway, just a story from my day, wanted to relay it, not sure why.
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