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| Optimizing Tube Cutting. The optimal tube cut is achieved by using the blade characteristics material, coating, tube trimming, diameter, thickness, number of teeth, and tooth profile and machine variables-cutting speed and feed rate-that are most suitable for the tube material, diameter, and wall thickness. These variables are even more critical and difficult to determine on tube cutting machine when sawing tubes with a circular saw because the saw blade encounters different amounts of material, depending on which part of the tube it is cutting. This is also know as tube cutoff. A tube has three different planes: the top, mostly horizontal area; the sides, which are mostly vertical; and the bottom of the tube, which is also mostly horizontal and is the longest cut length. Many time the technique of endfinishing is applied. The clean up the ends of the processed tube, brush deburring is applied. |
