On Wednesday 08 July 2020 16:47:22 andy pugh wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 19:03, Todd Zuercher <to...@pgrahamdunn.com> wrote: > > No you would not have to do this in an inert atmosphere. The only > > difficult part would be collecting all the chips. > > I would expect that the newly-cut surface is hermetically sealed to > the cutting edge until it isn't, and then it isn't damaging the edge, > no matter how hard it gets.
Its the next edge coming round to do another cut, which has to cut thru the oxide that forms on the raw alu after the previous edge clears the scene. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
