Re: ATM stainless steel

[Peter <kitgears@kitgear.com>]

There are many types of stainless steels on the market. Keep to 302
stainless and you should not have trouble cutting it. Also, it does not
cost 50 times as much! It may be as much as double the cost of carbon
steel - still cheap enough.


Peter


J. v. Gastel wrote:
> 
> Kriege/Berry's book advizes to use stailess steel to make a mirror cell.
> Someone told me it's very hard to cut. So I thought of asking the
> welding shop to cut it for me. But I also heard that this kind of steel
> is very expensive: 50 times as expensive as the usual (mild?) steel. If
> so, what will a mirror cell for a 20" cost? Is stainless steel really
> that expensive? If I want to use another kind of metal, which is better:
> aluminium or mild steel?
> 
> Jan.