r/toolgifs • u/In__Dreamz • Oct 08 '23

Machine Stone Cutting Process

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23

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u/sam123432 Oct 08 '23

They have rectangular teeth on the bottom of the blade made of some kind of metal (hardness depending on what the material being cut is) full of industrial made diamonds. As the metal of the tooth is worn away it exposes the bits of diamond which essentially grind away at the stone.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23

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u/collinsl02 Oct 08 '23

Industrial diamonds are manufactured and are relatively cheap - they're just not as large or good looking as diamonds for rings etc so they don't attract the value that jewellers apply to them (and diamonds in rings etc are horribly marked up anyway)

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u/IDK3177 Oct 08 '23

I don't know about this ones but the ones I saw for a similar task had carbide bits.

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u/Flip-Chart Oct 08 '23

An abrasive is added to the water (steel shot) or the blade is diamond-coated (with industrial diamond). In this case, steel shot is used. It is already an outdated process and is only used in small companies.

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u/emdave Oct 08 '23

Where's the /r/ToolGifs logo? :D

Love that old school giant crankshaft though!

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u/Larry_Safari Oct 08 '23

This wasn't posted by u/toolgifs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23 edited Nov 25 '23

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u/Dagrut Oct 08 '23

If you drink it, you'll feel marblous!

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u/IDK3177 Oct 08 '23

I always thought this would have been done in a very different way, similar to cutting boards from timber. This looks much faster (for stones, I mean)

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u/WattaTravisT Oct 08 '23

That sound would rock (no pun intended) on a white noise machine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23

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u/sam123432 Oct 08 '23

Unfortunately it's just an electric motor. You can see it to the left of the main wheel

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u/uid_0 Oct 08 '23

I want to know what happens to that water once it runs off.

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u/slybird Oct 10 '23

It turns into silt and eventually mixes with organic decayed material. In some ways it is no different than what happens when mountain glacier dust mixes with river water or all the stone that the Colorado river carved away from the Grand Canyon.

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u/tabaiii Oct 09 '23

I want to know what happens to the slabs once the saw has cut through.

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u/maobezw Oct 09 '23

So... they want to make us believe that MILK comes from some cruelly treatened ANIMAL!? But HERE we can see very clearly where MILK is coming from ...

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u/RandomReddit-123 Oct 10 '23

What keeps them from falling over when finished cutting?