I quite agree its a DIY saw. There is a place in Bedford that sharpens them for a fiver a go. So I get 10 done for the cost of buying 2 new ones. I only use it for home shop work stuff and like I said really rate it.
I have the 210mm and really rate it. Its great on wood and plastic etc and a blade will last for ever. On still its harder on it and you have to use the right technique but I generally get over 100 cuts on things like box section before I need a new blade. I save the blades up and send them...
Engineering plastic. Delrin. I prototype everything in it. Easy to work with, you can take massive cuts out of it even on small machines, cheap and nice to work with.
I use stainless nuts on my motocross bike which spends most of its life under mud and water and never have a problem removing them from the studs.......
I get the ones with solder tabs on from RS Components. Quality battery and much improved performance. I fixed all mine and then gave to my son and bought new Milwaukee stuff. He is still using the old stuff.
You won't be able to MIG a bike frame unless you make it from scaffold tube....! I have brazed and TIG'd a few in my time. I am building a stainless Reynolds one at the moment as a winter bike. That will be brazed as its not going to be painted and I want to have the braze polished and on show...
10mm the wall box is all you need. I made similar to this for my friends conversion for him and still going strong. Remember the strength comes from the design not just the size of the materials. You also need to remember that all the weight you put in will come off your useable load. I...
I have one of those little sealey table top parts washers that has a small pump in it with a brush that attaches to it. I use Jizer in it and that lasts for ever. I clean loads of chains and sprockets in as well as motorcycle parts and god knows what else!
You will be pleased to know that I have survived...... Made the parts on my Myford using
Carbide tipped tools, the same ones I cut aluminium with and my usual little spray bottle of coolant. Nothing caught fire and the finish is superb. Surprisingly easy to work actually.
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What tooling are people using to cut titanium on the lathe? I need to make a couple of threaded adaptors up to fit my pannier racks to my mountain bike and as I have some nice 12mm titanium kicking around that would do the job nicely.
Wow thanks for the physics lesson. I wish I had you around when I was studying engineering and then my commercial pilot exams. You would have made life so much easier........
And for the record what you have said is mostly tosh in relation to this question. Once the tank is drained and...
Blimey, I feel such a cowboy.... I just take the valves out, leave them over night and then rinse a couple of times and set to it with the plasma cutter!!!!