[meteorite-list] wire saw comment (and cuting units at all)

[PolandMET]

Dear list.
I was also interested to see what equipment Matteo have and also like You I 
was dissapointed :)
In fact Im owner of wire saw machine that use 17 meters of diamond wire. I 
have buy it 1 year ago on eBay from USA.
Sorry I cant remember the factory as I have it on other place, but if 
someone is interested I can check it. Funny thing is that this wire saw 
is..... 20 or 30 years old. Yes I know what You think but it really works. 
You dont need equipment full of microchips for 50 000$ to move some meters 
of wire. I have paid something like 300$ + 100$ shipping, so Im even better 
than Matteo with his "wire saw" for 1000$.
Anyway after few tests I dont use it becouse cuting take loooong time. 
Propably wire is dead. I can buy new wire but minimum 50-100meters. But I 
need only 17 meters, so I put it to box again. It wait for better time.

>From the other side, I use on my Silver Blade blades from 0.15-0.3mm (up to 
0.8mm 10inches). My cut loses are at range from 10-13% cuting into full 
slices 2-4mm. Wire saws also use usualy wires around 0.2mm (as I know) so I 
dont see a reason for myself to buy, or use any kind of wire saw. And I can 
cut everything into slices from thickness 0.5mm to 50mm in a size up to 
10cm.

So in face as long as I dont cut lunars or martians I dont need wire saw 
even for expensive achondrites becouse I dont expect big difference beetween 
my saw and wire saw for 50 000$. Propably Im wrong, beouse wire saw MUST 
have something that cost this thousands of $$$ and whay it is better than my 
saw :)

This topic is interesting so maybe others can share some photos of their 
wire saws "at work" or any stories about cuting meteorites on them. I also 
like to see Your normal diamond blades that You use for cutting meteorites. 
This could be interesting and "strong meteorite related".


PS. This is not advertisement of Silver Blade 4 :)

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