For those who go back several years, you may remember the Dremel tool also
had the name Gibbonizer. A name given to the tool by Ray Gibbons, who was a
real treasure and unfortunately passed on from this world, but is still
probably driving an Mg somewhere making people laugh.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Pringle <pringlmm@mcmaster.ca>
To: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
Cc: David Hill <davhill@cwcom.net>; triumphs@autox.team.net
<triumphs@autox.team.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: Dremel Wheel
|Forget those ones, through them out, you're just as likely to put out an
|eye as actually grind anything. Get the fibreglass reinfoced ones.
|They come in packs of five, they're black and last forever.
|
|Matt
|
|Barney Gaylord wrote:
|>
|> At 10:09 PM 7/27/99 +0100, David Hill wrote:
|> >
|> >I got a Dremel tool ....
|> >I got some of the very thin cut-off wheels with the tool but they're
|> feeble things which snap as easily as a dry biscuit ....
|>
|> I've had very good luck by putting two of the thin cut-off wheels on the
|> mandrel at the same time, very much stronger that way and they hardly
ever
|> break. If you need a thin kerf, then use just one wwheel and take it
very
|> easy with the cutting force. The edge of the wheel is so small that a
|> little force makes for a lot of pressure on the grinding edge. More
force
|> doesn't cut any faster, just breaks the wheel.
|>
|> Barney Gaylord
|> 1958 MGA with an attitude
|> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
|
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