Ouch. Those'd hurt. When I replied earlier, I had in mind some thin abrasive discs that are used at my employer on a Dremel. The do a great job cutting sheet metal, but are as brittle as all get out. They break with just a hard stare. Them little saw blades you point out would do some wicked damage to flesh and not break.
I look at my grinder... I look at where the switch is on the grinder, and where my hand is when I am ready to activate the switch... I imagine a 7.25" blade on the grinder...
If you're going to use "tiny sawblades" hand-held, then look at a Fein Multimaster. It oscillates, rather than rotating. Cuts hard things beautifully (they're used to take plaster casts off in hospitals) but the worst you get from skin contact is a line of pinpricks.
I'm trying to production-engineer these right now:
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the narrow stopped groove for the copper is a nightmare. Only way I've found to cut them in reasonable time is a slitting saw in the milling machine, and a custom-made fence to run the stock along. It's an ugly lash-up and it's putting my fingers far too close to a whirling sawblade, even with a pushblock 8-(
"Young Carpenter" wrote in news:3f68c602 snipped-for-privacy@corp.newsgroups.com:
That was Bill Engvall (his goofy sidekick from the TV show). He came out with a CD a couple of years ago called "Here's Your Sign". My wife played that thing till it practically wore out. While it was popular, you couldn't listen to a country station here in Phoenix for more than about 10 minutes without hearing it.
Yup. Nasty scar running across four fingers attests to that.
I now use them _rarely_, and with serious consideration aforehand.
Still, there are a very few jobs where nothing else will do.
Otherwise I use the cut-off wheels, sanding drums, and plethora of other decidedly more safe Dremel attachments.
There are two main varieties of cut-off wheels for Dremels, the 'plain' type and the reinforced type. The differences are readily seen; the reinforcing fabric in the latter is quite obvious. The 'plain' wheels shatter in a New York Second, but the reinforced variety are pretty tough customers. I use 'em to slice up stainless sheet and tube when building control fittings for the models. Cheers, Fred McClellan the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
Agreed. Unfortunately, 98% of radio stations play country now. Gotta love this "new country" where they play rap beats on acoustic drums and say "yeehaw" a lot.
That's why I listen to NPR, preferably stations of the all-news variety.
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