Re: Has this been tried?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Bill,

UHMW PE machines like chewing gum.  Very sharp aggressive steel cutters do 
pretty well but only a 10 mill tolerance material at best.  Sharp 
aggressive wood bits may do better than anything for metal cutting.  You 
actually have to "slice" it.  It does not "chip" like most materials.

Cheers,

         Terry


At 07:18 AM 7/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Watch out - I bought a bunch of cutting boards in Wal-Mart to make
>primary supports, thinking they were polyethylene.  They looked like it,
>but weren't.  Polyethylene machines beautifully - you can cut and drill
>it like butter.  The stuff I bought got hot when cut, and instead of
>producing the clean white shavings that polyethylene does when cut or
>drilled, it produced gooey lumps that gummed up the saw blade and drill
>bits.  They make good cutting boards though.
>
>         -  Bill V.
>
>Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Christopher \"CajunCoiler\" Mayeux by way of Terry 
> Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <cajuncoiler-at-cox-dot-net>
> >
> > While at the local Wal-Mart, I noticed a variety
> > of white plastic cutting boards for cheap, and I
> > pondered if anyone has tested these for thier
> > insulative properties against high voltage. It's
> > a hard plastic, and would probably make a good
> > perf board for an MMC or a "Terry Filter" if it
> > were suitable.  Has anyone tried these yet?