band sawing annealed 304 SS?

aribert neumann · 2012-02-24T03:35:24+00:00

My wanted a touch-pad for her recipes in the kitchen - so I got herone for Christmas. Now she is looking for a holder that will storethe pad up under the upper cabinets and pivot down and out for her toread. The only articulating holder that I found was for an I-pad andhers is not the same size. I am thinking of a bracket mounted to theunderside of the upper cabinet with a simple pivot, a pair of linksthat are saw cut for the touch-pad to slip into. I am thinking ofmaking the links out of annealed 304 SS. Do I need to be concernedabout work hardening from sawing? I have very little experienceworking w/ SS.

Feb 24, 2012 20 Replies

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All: Thanks for the responses - you have convinced me that I don't want to play w/ stainless if I do not need to. Originally I was thinking of using aluminum and then I figured why not stretch a bit and work w/ SS. My plan was to take 3/16 x 1.25 flat stock and make a pair of links and bandsaw cut the profile of the touchpad into the links (sliding the touchpad in from the side - worked well when I used a piece of scrap wood as a proof of concept). I was thinking of using

304 SS - Since I would have left over material, if I needed to weld on it on a future project.

Artemus: THanks for the link to the linkset for the cookbook holder - it got me looking at cookbook holders and I ended up buying one off of Amazon. Now I can go back to spending my precious free time on my projects and not fabbing up a touchpad holder!