Got a shelving project that requires a fair amount of 25mm square-tube ironmongery, this sort of thing:
Don't fancy the blisters from doing it with a hacksaw. Can anyone recommend a firm that will supply pre-cut lengths from a custom cutting list?
Total order size isn't huge (20-30m total length, cut into ~70 pieces). Delivery to West Midlands.
Cheers...
Standard reply realy "angle grinder"
If you use the fine kerf discs,
You know what the answer is. An angle grinder with steel cutting disc. In a stand. That's what I use for Dexion Speedframe.
Thanks all. Yes I was expecting the angle grinder replies, but will see what
I would have expected the West Midlands the sort of area where you could find a local metal cutting place - just give them a list of lengths and someone out the back will cut them for you. If you're more specific about area maybe someone could suggest somewhere.
For instance, this is our local Cambridge one:
Theo
Yes - it's the sort of job where a personal visit might get much better prices than ordering over the phone, etc. I expect such places to take pity on me. ;-)
One of these will also do the job even easier than an angle grinder in a stand:
You should wear eye protection and gloves though since they spray around quite a bit of swarf. You need to screw it to a workbench or to a piece of plywood which you can clamp in a workmate.
I was just thinking that. Oh I wish the Angle grinder had been about when I was younger and could see what I was doing. Brian
Older readers will remember when a mains electric drill was about all a DIYer would aspire to.
ASh - but it had attachemnts.
Which never worked properly here. Apart from perhaps a sanding disc.
Remember my second power tool - a B&D jigsaw. Perfection after the attachment. Still got it somewhere.
The Stanley-Bridges Power Unit ("Don't just call it a power drill") boasted over 70 attachments. Saw wood, turn wood, drive screws, cut metals, spray paint, cut lawns, trim hedges, polish floors, buff, grind and do a 1001 oth er jobs.
£10 7 shillings and sixpence in 1964. attachments probably extra. At the same time you could buy 7 "Uneek" self-assembly kitchen units for £50 and Rawlplug were saying "while asbestos fibre filling compounds and wall plug s are ideal; for many fixing jobs, they have their limitations".Owain
And the Electrolux vacuum came with a paint sprayer attachment you could put on the "blow" end rather than the "suck" end ...
I would say jigsaw.
And bury hairs as they found their way through the filter bag:-)
I don't think my parents' one ever saw action.
I had the drill, and dreamt of attachments. Sawing was done by hand. Years later I came across a circular saw attachment and thought I'd try it out of curiosity. Utter junk. TCT is one of the rare good things to come out of that country in that era.
NT
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To be fair, they were excellent attachments at the time, in that nothing else was available and they worked. Precision instruments they were not, but for anyone who sawed every piece of wood by hand, a B&D circular or jigsaw attachment was a joy. I had circular saw, jigsaw, horizontal and vertical drill stands and probably others.
I still have my Dad's original single speed B&D drill, which only has a few inches of cable, because he also had a hedge trimmer attachment :-)
Yup. That's what I found. Probably due to the blade blunting after a couple of uses.
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