Thread: I Found It Over There

what if you had a method of turning the hack saw blade through 90 degrees so you can cut horizontally. A standard blade is 12" long, you need some movement on that say 3" total travel. That means you could cut almost 9" of rock.

The feed method in the horizontal would be a trolley, with a big weight on a wire and pulley over a table edge.

There are also much longer power hacksaw blades available. I have not found an 18" blade suitable for stone yet, but I'm still looking.

the big lapidary saws the big circular blade is in a fixed position and the vice travel on two shafts and is pushed by a threaded rod thats is turned by a small variable speed motor. With the hacksaw blade vertical and traveling straight up and down you could push the rock past the blade. A small water pump would add cooling and flush the slurry away without requiring much volume or pressure and the motor would be well above. A do able design.

I found an 18" hacksaw blade that should work

Hitachi 752042 18" Carbide Tipped Reciprocating Saw Blade for Brick and Abrasive | eBay

It's supposed to be for one of those brick eating reciprocating saws... so it shouldn't need the top support, A guide or pair of rollers to keep the blade true would work.

I want to try one.