Brüel flex bandsaw blades start life as the finest Swedish carbon steel, which then makes its way to Germany where it undergoes further processing to form and set the teeth, and to be hardened to the perfect level needed to slice through all kinds of timber, plastic and alloy.
There are a number of reasons for cracking and breakage in metal cutting bimetal bandsaw blades, so in this article we’ll detail the main ones we come across.
One customer went from killing blades in 10 cuts on stainless billet (about 1 hour’s work) to getting 9 months’ work out of one blade – by changing nothing but the band speed. Click below to learn how.