Do you ship to France?! I guess I will stick to angle grinder cutting...
Iron worker here. Mark your lines with soap stone or bright paint marker. Clamp a straight edge a couple inches away as parallel as possible(or use the factory edge if you're close), but doesn't have to be perfect. Hold grinder with wheel on line, motor toward the clamped guide. With the hand up near the wheel, drag your fingers on your guide and follow your line. The hand holding the switch supports the weight and the top hand does the driving. Don't rush, you'll eat up fewer wheels that way too.
I can vouch for the broke wheel being dangerous.Chromeski wrote:I think the main thing is practice. I haven't got enough practice to be good at it either. I have seen tools that hold a 4" grinder to use as a chop saw although kinda neat they only help for small cuts and those are not the difficult ones. Just be safe a broken wheel is scary.
McBroom wrote: ↑May 1st, 2019, 1:58 pmI can vouch for the broke wheel being dangerous.Chromeski wrote:I think the main thing is practice. I haven't got enough practice to be good at it either. I have seen tools that hold a 4" grinder to use as a chop saw although kinda neat they only help for small cuts and those are not the difficult ones. Just be safe a broken wheel is scary.
I have a scar on my leg about 5” long from a cut off wheel that shattered. I spent 9 days in the hospital and 2 surgeries to get all the debris out. And another 4 months with a vacuum patch over it to make it heal up.
Use serious caution with cut off wheels.
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I usually wear my electronic welding hood in grind mode. I admit I sometimes make the quick cuts without a full face shield even tho i know better.Dirtytires wrote: ↑May 3rd, 2019, 1:39 pmOuch....safety glasses are your friend tho they won’t save the rest of your face.
My pleasure brotherJKalchik wrote:I try to learn from other people's mistakes.... and I really don't want to do that. I make it a point to 1) Wear PPE, and don't work in shorts, 2) keep out of the plane of the spinning disc, and don't put sideways stress on the disc (strongest in the spinning plane.) Safety glasses are no replacement for full face coverage.
McBroom, thanks for posting the picture and the reminder.
Yes I do when the cutoff or die grinder can't get in the spot. I use cutting oil with my jigsaw and occasionally with the 7 1/4" skilsaw blade that's made for cutting metal. It helps clean the teeth and keep it cool tooNewsmoke wrote:Has someone ever cut the doors with a jig saw? It seems they do sell blades for thick metals in France.
I cut the doors for my latest build with a metal circular saw. It's like a wood circular saw, but it has a guard that catches most of the chips. You could use a wood circular saw, you just need a blade for metal.