This little flying saucer (I hope it doesn't) is studded with thousands of diamonds and is the latest bit of kit I have for ripping off large amounts of marble in a reasonably controlled manner.
I love taking these things out of the box and admiring them before they become sullied with use. I love doing that much more than I do actually using the bloody things. Oh well, I suppose I had better go off and do it.
I love my angle grinder. A beast.
ReplyDeleteI bet yours isn't variable speed though? (grinder envy...)
DeleteI see them all the time as my husband makes them ..... all sorts of them ..... even for Formula One !! They are also sent to the customer in a beautiful wooden box. XXXX
ReplyDeleteMine came in a cardboard box, but I have nothing to do with F1.
DeleteThis is two great paragraphs in one post. Love your work.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up - I may get a book deal!
DeleteWhat a beautiful piece of engineering. The best art in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI'll tell my husband Em ! XXXX
DeleteToo good to use and abuse - almost.
DeletePoetry in motion
ReplyDelete2000 RPM motion.
Deletelooks like it is a rappers medallion in platinum and diamonds.
ReplyDeleteYes it does, eh? A bit heavy, but they seem to like that.
DeleteDang, she beat me to it. I would wear that as a pendant. I don't care about diamonds. Just the metal part.
DeleteWell they only cost about £60 - a fraction of what they would if you bought it from Cartier.
DeleteSome boy's best friend too! ;)
ReplyDeleteWell, it's good in a tight corner - it has diamonds up the edges as well.
DeleteWhat I want to know is do bits of those diamonds ever fly off when you are using the tool and if so what do you do with them?
ReplyDeleteYes, some of them must do, but if I don't eat them at the time, I never know what happens to them.
DeleteThese diamonds are electro-bonded to the wheel, but another method is to bond them to segments which are then brazed to the wheel.
I was once looking down the edge of one of these segmented, 15 inch wheels (rotating at about 3000 RPM) when a segment flew off like an unseen bullet.
If it had hit me, I would be dead or at least in need or serious surgery, but - in the event - I never found it.
They come off at about the same speed as a sub-sonic bullet. I don't like segmented blades for this reason.
Headline: Diminutive dastardly diamonds deliver near-departure.
ReplyDeleteI think the word 'deadly' could fit in there somewhere?
DeleteI put deadly in, but as you didn't actually die, I took it out again.
ReplyDeleteSaving it for later?
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