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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby RogerS » 11 Aug 2021, 18:52

Schluter make a very nice metal cutting blade (angle grinder) for use with their bathroom trim.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Chris152 » 12 Aug 2021, 09:54

No laughing, this is the result of about 30 mins sawing, but we're getting there. I think that's a pretty impressive saw build, and so far have all fingers in tact and nobody's crotch has burst into flame.
Just thought I'd update as it offers a break.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby novocaine » 12 Aug 2021, 10:03

screw that for a game of soldiers. 30 minutes is to long to be cutting what should be a a quick snip.

got a cold chisel and 2 bits of that there angle your using?
clamp the angle both sides along the line.
take chisel and hammer and work way along line. I'm rather partial to do it in 2 strikes but this will effectively shear the metal along the line.

you'd have been done in seconds with a sliting disc but if you aren't happy with it then I get that. the saw is just not the right tool for this job, you need to stop thinking like a carpenter and start thinking like a metal working.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Chris152 » 12 Aug 2021, 10:40

I aspire to think like a woodworker, metal's not even on my radar!
Don't forget it's a curve, Dave - tho I did think you fellas would get the job done in as many seconds as it took us in minutes.
That panel's done, but the other profile now needs two cuts, each a meter, one straight and one with the same curve. Hm.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby sunnybob » 12 Aug 2021, 10:46

Slitting disc and disc cutter = 30 seconds per cut, leaving you 1 hour, 44 and a half minutes to admire your work and plan the next bit :D :D
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby novocaine » 12 Aug 2021, 10:50

hang on a minute, it's for a Volvo isn't it, why is it curved? :lol:
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby sunnybob » 12 Aug 2021, 11:38

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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby novocaine » 12 Aug 2021, 11:41



I know, I have a friend with one. it's lovely.
but..... 1970-2010 happened and...... :D
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Chris152 » 12 Aug 2021, 13:29

... this happened!
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby novocaine » 12 Aug 2021, 17:08

Or this. (The story of which i love).
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby TrimTheKing » 13 Aug 2021, 09:34

novocaine wrote:Or this. (The story of which i love).


Was only talking about those last Friday. My uncle borrowed his bosses for the weekend and nearly killed himself initially! :D
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Chris101 » 13 Aug 2021, 16:04

Chris I spent several years hard landscaping and and I will happily use a 9" grinder like a scalpel even now. I cut tiles with 4" and find it far faster, as accurate and a lot cheaper (free!) than hiring in a decent wet tile cutter. I've restored rusty iron with flap pads and most things inbetween all the above with grinders. This is not professional advice of course but experience leads to confidence and confidence leads to results. Trick is preventing over confidence I suppose. What I'm trying to say in a protracted manner is that any tool is dangerous but the grinder ( esp a 4") is no more dangerous than any other mechanical cutting tool. Cutting thin metal on a 4" grinder with the right blade on a ply off cut backer is a doddle mate. Make two practice cuts in scrap to get your eye in, then be confident and steady. You won't ever regret owning a grinder. Untrained I personally think a circular saw is far more dangerous.

Btw, somewhere in the shed I have a hacksaw thingy for cutting sheet. You are more than welcome to it. PM me if you want it fella.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Chris152 » 13 Aug 2021, 18:07

Thanks Chris (and Roger, again) for the offer of a more suitable tool! But, we're done (assuming the bits actually fit when we hand it over to the fella doing the welding)...
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I'm thinking of marketing the saw as a meditation aid, that and a few metres of steel gives you time to escape the harsh realities of existence and enter an alternative, vacant zone.

I think my distrust of fast spinning cutting things comes from when I was 18, left school and worked for a local builder for a year. The very worst job was carrying buckets of 'muck' up a massive, wobbly 3-section ladder so he could fix tiles on the roof, I was terrified; but then there was the stone saw, a huge thing that'd cut your leg off as soon as look at you. I was told the story of one that swung from a scaffold and cut I-can't-remember-what off a fella working below, and of the dangers of catches, and that was it for H&S. I really hated that thing.

But we're going to get one - at first, for use on other rusty bits of the car and, when he's had some experience with someone who knows what they're doing, he can use it to cut metal.

eta - Dave, I had an 850 T5, not quite as athletic looking as that one and never had it on two wheels, thankfully. I really regret part-exing that car, I got a few hundred for it in exchange for a V70.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Phil Pascoe » 14 Aug 2021, 06:24

I had a 1976 245 estate - it rusted so badly that the outside of the rear door opened while the inside of it stayed shut.
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Re: Panel hacksaw?

Postby Chris152 » 14 Aug 2021, 07:00

That was yet another of Volvo's anti-theft innovations, Phil.
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