Cutting Stainless Steel

It can, yes. Not as easily as most steels, but it'll cut.

Try using a plasma cutter, works great on stainless. Oxy-acetylene will make a mess.

One technique I've heard of (but not tried myself, since I have a plasma cutter) is to lay a sheet of plain steel over the stainless and then use an oxy-cutter.

The heat of the burning steel apparently does a much better job of cutting the stainless than the oxy-torch it self would do.

Has anyone used this technique?

-- Yes it's true, I really am crazy! Look what I'm doing now

Save yourself some grief and cut it with an abrasive disk. Regards. Ken.

No, not successfully, anyway. You can melt it away, but that's pretty ugly. I'll leave the suggestions as to how for those that know so much more than I do.

Harold

I had to cut a SS tank once where other methods wouldn't work. Oxy-Ace worked, melted an ugly hole the right size which I refinished with epoxy.

jW> Lay a heavy bead of regular steel weld >> I have a stainless steel tank that I would like to cut to make a casting >> furnace. Can stainless be cut using >> oxy-acetylene? Otherwise what is the best way to cut? >> >> Thanks, John Lovallo

A cheap, big, import angle grinder with a cutting disc? I recently cut a number of 40mm (mild steel) bars with one of these with no sweat. A stainless tank should be easy.