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Jonny:
O1 is classified near on the same as silver steel.

There are loads of other steels, the chances of getting small amounts highly remote.
D5 ok but not that hard.
Vanadis great to work with and gets hard.
Still got what I reckon is EN19T from 24 yrs ago, not recommended hacksaw blade bald just cutting every 1/4" depth on 3/4" thick, milling cutters not much better even roughing cutters, its an animal in annealed state as hard as O1/silver steel hardened.

Will_D:
Thanks for the replies. I am thinking of building* a 'Lil Bertha electric tool oven. I know there's a thread running about  Bertha but a swap in PCs at the moment makes posting links difficult.

I need to machine and not grind at the moment!

* well I have e-prayed Kanthal-A wire, a 1400C rated thermo. couple and a Pid !

What could possibly go wrong?

leg17:
Will, maybe you could give us an example of what you intend to do in SS?
We might be able to suggest more specifically and appropriately.

Will_D:
Well recently (2 years ago) I decided to restart some machining on my old ML7. Thanks to this group  :bugeye: I have upgraded the shop a bit. Expense: Don't tell SWMBO

A Long time ago when working on a small live steam loco (Rob Roy 3 1/2" gauge). I made a lots of jigs/fixtures/etc from mild steel and subsequently watched them rust!

Nowadays thanks to modern tooling machining SS 303/304/316 is as easy as En1a was in the 70s with HSS Tooling.

Reason for this thread is that I cannot find the correct sized milling cutters to cut T slots to my spec.

Also the 'Lil Bertha may just be used for melting stuff

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