You'll not need those, as all it throws out is water with some slurry in it - no chunks as you might expect with an angle grinder etc. Just make sure you set the guard as low as possible otherwise you'll get soaked - but in any case wear something that doesn't matter if it gets wet.
I'll let you know when I wear one out. It's a long time, although it will depend on what you're cutting.
Did you mean that I won't need the practice runs or I won't need the safety goggles? I'm astounded at the blasé attitude of some DIY enthusiasts with regard to safety. For instance, I quite often see neighbours using rotary mowers or strimmers without adequate footwear (sometimes even sandals!) and suitable eye protection. After working for ICI for 35 years, safety was instilled into me from an early age. I have goggles, steel toe-capped boots, gloves, overalls and even a hard hat, all of which are worn when deemed necessary.
Getting back to the floor-tiling - I'm already booked for tiling my daughter's new conservatory floor and I haven't even started my own kitchen yet, followed by the bathroom. :-(
BTW, what gets the vote for the most frightening DIY appliance. I think my vote must go to chain saws, closely followed by hedge trimmers.
Terry D.
Most scary chainsaw. Most dangerous stanley knife. High powered nailguns must be up there somewhere as well, you know the things that'll drive a 4" nail into solid concrete.
I'm saying it's not a device where safety glasses are *essential* - if the blade guard is properly set as it should be to stop yourself getting soaked. Of course, if you bend down and get your eyes close to the blade that would be a different matter, but no one with normal eyesight would need to.
I did say it's a pretty safe device if used with normal safety precautions. At least it doesn't scare me, like circular saws and angle grinders do.
Does my spud gun count as a tool? So many near misses...
I don't think this presents a problem on the Rubi, which takes a 12" tile diagonally and the snapper works fine at that angle. The offcut limit Dave refers to is more like half an inch, which I suppose is splitting hairs. Under that it is still good for doing the score but you have to nibble the offcut. Now there's a technique I haven't really mastered. I've watched tilers using those nibblers to cut shapes, but it never works for me. Overall I'd say a *good* snapper comes into its own on floors because a 12" tile is as quick to cut as a 6", plus the tool is right next to you the whole time. Bad enough being on your knees but getting up and down for each cut is a pain.
I vote for Hammer - the item that has hurt me the most Mini Digger - the item that scares me the most when using it
All types of small power tool are given great respect, so are less lilkley to damage me. The mini digger is hired, so as you pay by the day to have it, you use it 15 hours a day, in any weather.
Rick
My cheap'n cheerful 5-quid Screwfix angle-grinder. I used it on the first day it arrived, and it cut out. Put it down to check the plug; oops sure enough it had come slightly out of the socket so I pushed it home. At which point I discovered that the angle-grinder switch, which was quite stiff, had a lock-on position (why??). It immediately burst into life and shot across the room, passing about two inches from my leg. A salutary lesson indeed. David
Hope your not UK based, that sounds like an un-proofed and unlicenced firearm, according to UK law....
I like the more dangerous ones as they do so much so easily. But.... the price tag is all too easily bad bad bad. I think one of the more dangerous ones is the innocent looking planer. Its high pitched purring disguises its ravenous appetite for anything that so much as touches it. Angle grinder, chainsaw, and circ saw are the obvious others. Maybe I've missed soemthing? What about props used when digging under foundations and removing supporting walls etc?
Regards, NT
On 19 Jun 2004 07:39:27 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@meeow.co.uk (N. Thornton) strung together this:
The most dangerous equipment I've ever used on site is... scaffolding! Every time I go up som I end up with some sort of injury or my mobile ends up flying towardds the ground from an astounding height. Cherry pickers are fun too!
Yes. Firearms acts, various years, proof acts, variuos years, try google, or your local police...
Grunff wrote >
Do you have any plans? A spud gun is my next project. I particularly liked Jeremy Clarkson's. Highly irresponsible.... but looked like amazing fun. Cheers, Steve
My large Stayer angle grinder with a diamond wheel. Throws up so much dust when cutting stone you want to put it down but it carries on spinning for minutes after you turn it off and you know if you put it down in the mist you'll cut your foot off.
Have a Google round for the bowling ball mortar...
Not really - I've just made it up as I've gone along. I use ABS soil pipe for the combustion chamber, and 22mm copper for the barrel. Works great.
I'd second the recommendation for the score-and-snap cutters, in particular (in the DIY range and B&Q shelf availability) the Plasplug (bah!) Contractor version, with the single action score-and-snap (rather than the cheaper version where you score, then reposition the tile to snap). I use this for
95% of all cuts, a lot quicker and cleaner that the diamon-disc cutters, but for that last 5% of "awkward" cuts (e.g. concave angles or nibbling arcs etc.) then the diamond cutters come into their own. For £20 for the Contracter cutter, I'd suggest it's not a case of which of the tools is better, rather, both of the tools will help in their own way.Regards
Spud guns? Pah!
Denifintley a hand held router. The gyro action is immnese, and teh bloody things spin for ages at verh high RPM.
Ive got both. I tend to use teh diamind wheel excelusively, because it can shave thous off a tile edge, and do the awkward stuf, and it is really no bother. With te guard down it doesn't spalch much: I wear glasses anyway these days, and a quick wipe is necessary doing alomost any work.
Yes, your get wet. So what?
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