Cutting Nails & Screws

Dremel works well. The cut-off-wheels work well, and are not solely for polishing.

You want a Dremel clone with a miniature cutting disc in it. Like a miniature angle grinder.

B&Q might have one of theirs in.

Yet another task for the Dremmel. The course disc are for the cutting and should work well. You'll find other uses for this drill when the time comes. ;-)

|I've removed an old window frame and it's left some fairly hefty nails and |screws which I need to cut flush to the surface and they are in a position |which is hard to get to with a hacksaw. I'm sure I've seen something on TV |which did the job easily using a small rotary disc. Just been to B&Q to look |at the multi tools (Dremel etc) which I thought was what I saw on TV (QVC |actually) but the bits seem more for sanding , grinding & polishing etc. | |Can anyone recommend anything?

Small angle grinders, various makes, will eat the job even though you may have to work at an angle. Beware that after you have done the job, you will probably have to make good the surface.

on 23/06/2006, Nodge supposed :

What about an angle grinder with a thin metal cutting blade, could you get that in?

Just don't accept any crappy substitutes.

I bought one which turned out to be so feeble it literally did not have a use on this earth.

DG

Been there, done that... however TBH I did find one use for it: sanding down a verruca prior to annointing it with medication - it just about coped with that!!

(too much information for a Saturday morning maybe? ;-) )

David

Dremel but with some reinforced cut off discs off Ebay as the ones they use are brittle and rubbish really.

I'll have to admit the most used job mine has been tasked with is cutting the steel wires on the inside rim of old tyres so i can take them to the tip (skip provided there) rather than pay to have them taken off and disposed of.

Mark S.

Dremel and a 'cut off' disk

Or angle grinder.. You can just by a dremel spindle and cutoff disk and use it ina small drill as well.

Ive got a crappy chinese one and use it all the time..for model making. Will cut thin wires and bolts, and extract the interior of many heavy things that need lightening.

Fein Multimaster with a metal cutting blade. Too expensive to buy just for this job, but one of the random things it is very good for if you happen to have one anyway - or need an excuse to buy one.

A cheap angle grinder (less that 15 Pounds) and a metal cutting disk. As the nails/screws will be behind/inside of the new window frame, there will be no need for a 'make good' after they are chopped off. You can cut into the brick to put the old fasteners below the level of the new window and make good anything that will be visible after the window is installed.

HTH

Dave

A cold chisel should work quick enough as well, or even just banging them about with a hammer until they snap, and then whacking any remains so they are sunk into the wall.

If he can get at it with a small hacksaw,what chance has he with a grinder wheel?

|Dave wrote: |> Nodge wrote: |>> I've removed an old window frame and it's left some fairly hefty |>> nails and screws which I need to cut flush to the surface and they |>> are in a position which is hard to get to with a hacksaw. I'm sure |>> I've seen something on TV which did the job easily using a small |>> rotary disc. Just been to B&Q to look at the multi tools (Dremel |>> etc) which I thought was what I saw on TV (QVC actually) but the |>> bits seem more for sanding , grinding & polishing etc. |>>

|>> Can anyone recommend anything? |>

|> A cheap angle grinder (less that 15 Pounds) and a metal cutting disk. |> As the nails/screws will be behind/inside of the new window frame, |> there will be no need for a 'make good' after they are chopped off. |> You can cut into the brick to put the old fasteners below the level |> of the new window and make good anything that will be visible after |> the window is installed.

|If he can get at it with a small hacksaw,what chance has he with a grinder |wheel?

Use it at an angle, but then it will definitely mark the wall and making good will be necessary.

A hammer. Knock them from side to side a couple of times and they will break off.

I hope you took it back for a refund, then. I bought a GBP14.99 one from A Local DIscount supermarket, with several collets and a flexible drive shaft. It works very well in some experiments I've done, but I haven't found a real use for it yet. I suspect these things in general are on the periphery of usefulness.

Not if you make model aircraft they ain't..they are SMALL tools for SMALL jobs, but hey, sometimes a small tool will do a big job if you take time..I just cut a 2ft 6" slab of 1" thick sandstone paving on a 30 quid tile saw...my poxy dremel-clone will cut through a no 10 woodscrew...in about 15 minutes :-)