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Keith O'LearyWas off work yesterday and decided to get my oil changed at the nearest Jiffy Lube. The usual wait was involved so I decided to pick up a magazine and read it.
One of the articles really caught my eye about cutting machines since someone was just talking about it on the board. Was mostly over my head but I can tell you they do exist. The technology was developed overseas, applications are seemingly endless, was touting mostly the thinness of the blade and its head and shoulder advantages over "thicker" and "duller" blades. Advanatges in surgery healing time among others, wasn't important to me.
Anyway...If I remember correctly (and I wanted to rip the article out and take it with me, but guilt and the 8 other poor hostages prevented me from following through) this blade was constructed from diamond flakes on a laser beam or something akin to a piano wire slicing though the Milky Way. I know it sounds impossible, but I was reading it and re reading it. This is also not important.
What is important is the fact that this "blade" could slice as thin as half the thickness of a human hair. They were using terms like nano and micro, but the visual analogies they had with the article spelled it out in layman's terms for me. So...just wanted everyone to know the technology is here and is in its infancy according to the article. Things will only get "better".
I wonder what kind of edge these blades leave on whatever they're cutting and if it can still be determined that an additional cut was made. I'm thinking the cut surface would be smoother then the previous cut and since it is, it could still could be detected?
Interesting, germaine reading.