[meteorite-list] wire saw comment

[dean bessey]

I recently chopped up a 24 gram shergotite with a .006
pro slicer blade. This is a blade that is so thin that
if you wave it it flaps like a very thick piece of
paper. Even so, I had WELL over $1000 in cut loss.
If anybody can point me to where I can get a wire saw
for $1000 that would cut 1-2mm slices with a 10% cut
loss like langs $14,000 unit or the labbennes $25,000
one I would be very appriciative.
Sincerely
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com

--- Michael L Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Matteo,
>         I have written you twice off list to avoid
> bothering those not
> Interested on the list, but got no response, So, I
> must be on a block
> in your email. Therefore, I feel the need to bring
> this up here.
>         Your comment following a portion of this
> month's
> METEORITE MARKET TRENDS (METEORITE TIMES,
> August, 2007) states you have a wire saw that cost
> you $1,000.
>         Could you please contact me off list with
> the following
> information:
> 1) From where did you get the saw? Do they have a
> web site
> URL you  Can pas on to me?
> 2) Was it new or used?
> 3) How large a diameter stone will it cut?
> 4) You mentioned it would cut to 1mm  -  will it cut
> thinner
> Than that?
> 5) How much are the wires?
>         I very much want to avoid passing on
> miss-information in my articles
> in METEORITE TIMES. So, I would be very appreciative
> of your time
> And consideration in passing on this information
> since everyone has been
> consistent in telling me the prices I cited in the
> article and all the web
> sites of sources I have checked also confirmed the
> price range I mentioned.
>         RSVP
>         Thanks again, Michael
> 
> 
> on 8/4/07 9:26 PM, M come Meteorite Meteorites at
> info at mcomemeteorite.it
> wrote:
> 
> > one question on Blood section
> > 
> > 1) The thickness of a cut piece, particularly the
> thinner it
> > is under 2.5mm. While
> > exceptionally thin slicing is not possible with
> some
> > meteorites, most do quite nicely
> > when thinly cut. How can it be argued that an
> historic fall
> > (or any specimen, for
> > that matter) cut .8mm thick is not worth a good
> deal more
> > "per gram" than a slice
> > of the same material 4mm in thickness. The thinner
> cut slice
> > gives both MUCH 
> > more surface relative to weight and, therefore,
> much greater
> > "eye appeal" and
> > costs the seller a good deal more in both "saw
> loss" and in
> > the cost of the saw capable
> > of making such a thin slice. (A SMALL wire saw
> costs about
> > $17,000.00, a large
> > one, big enough to slice Bob Haag's Zagami stone
> costs about
> > $60,000.00). 
> > 
> > 
> > $17,000 for a wire saw?? I have buy my for $1000
> and I
> > arrive to cut slices of 1 mm or under thick, large
> at 10
> > cm., with blade of 0.6 mm with any problems.
> > 
> > matteo
> 
> 
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