AK2M4 / XT AEG Springs, Bloody Indestructible!...

[Fatboy40]

... which is a very good thing for them holding their shape / strength, but makes it impossible (at least for me) to cut off a coil. I bent the blades on a pair of snips and took all the teeth off a Dremel cutting wheel trying to do it ?

 

Unless @ak2m4 has a magic trick to doing it I'm stumped (looks like heat won't help as the cutting wheel got the spring lava hot).

[Chev Chelios]

https://www.dremel.com/gb/en/p/dremel-ez-speedclic-thin-cutting-wheels-2615s409jb cut through CPM-S90V heat treated tool steel. 

[Colin Allen]

1 hour ago, Chev Chelios said:

https://www.dremel.com/gb/en/p/dremel-ez-speedclic-thin-cutting-wheels-2615s409jb cut through CPM-S90V heat treated tool steel. 

That is what I use to cut them.

[Fatboy40]

1 hour ago, Chev Chelios said:

https://www.dremel.com/gb/en/p/dremel-ez-speedclic-thin-cutting-wheels-2615s409jb cut through CPM-S90V heat treated tool steel. 

 

Ah well, there's goes more of my wages on Friday  Thank you.

[Pseudotectonic]

i wonder if a bolt cutter can cut it

[ak2m4]

@Fatboy40 haha I've never actually tried cutting one.  Out of interest what spring power do you have and what you trying to get it down to?

[Fatboy40]

I'm off work for a few days so the cutting wheel turned up today, and I shat my pants when the sparks started to fly from it cutting the spring ? ? (put on some gloves and safety glasses after that).

 

@ak2m4 I cut just over a coil of an M130 to get my DMR to spot on 1.6J on 0.40g BB's.