In applications involving the sawing of wide workpieces.

In applications involving the sawing of wide workpieces, work hardening becomes an issue because of the large number of teeth exigencyed to execute the divide [i]or[/i] sever Basically, the more teeth, the les penetration force by tooth, and this can inference in a cycle of rubbing and work hardening.

Now a recent blade from DoAll Inc., De Plaines, Ill., make plains the material-hardening problem by means of incorporating a stepped-tooth pattern that limits the number of teeth in contact with the cross at any single moment. The teeth of the Invader-X bandsaw blade gradually increase and then decrease in height,

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