I'm being asked to bid on a recurring job which involves making up a structure from 1" square steel tubing (don't know the wall thickness yet) which will involve a lot of cutting. Cosmetics have little to do with this part as it's always buried in concrete. I am wondering what the absolute fastest way to cut 1" square steel tubing is. I have a horizontal bandsaw, an oxy/acetylene torch, a plasma cutter and a 35 ton ironworker, but I'm wondering if a metal chop saw might be the way to go for this stuff.Anyone?GWE

On 1" tubing I'm pretty sure a chopsaw will be fastest. Also noisyand lotsa sparks. If you have to do a lot of them, set up a rollertable and some type of stop and you should be able to whack "emout fairly quickly. I'm back. I had a small piece of one inch tubing and on my chop saw I cut it in about 4 seconds. (not including deburring).

Or someone from Dick Cheney's office...i

metal chop saw?

Nov 14, 2005 43 Replies

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Mike Fields 20 years ago

oxy/acetylene torch,

Have them cut it down at Puget Sound Salvage (or whatever their name is these days). Buy the steel from them and have them cut it there - fast and all the mess stays there !!

mikey

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Mike Fields 20 years ago

I see the Enron accountants are calculating horsepower now ..

mikey

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Ignoramus10200 20 years ago

Or someone from Dick Cheney's office...

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Gunner Asch 20 years ago

Actually..it was the guy who calculated the Clinton Surplus...

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

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