I once told an excited Step-Daughter that I just bought hundreds of real diamonds. She loves diamonds. She can't get enough of them.
Imagine her disappointment when I pulled out the above cutting-wheel and held it in front of her! How I laughed!
I am just about to do a marble job. I haven't worked with marble for a couple of years now. It has been all sorts of other materials, some of which are mentioned in my latest advertising campaign.
Handy hint: To sharpen a diamond rotary wheel which appears to have become 'blunt' (usually 'blunt' means 'clogged' when it comes to diamonds) simply run it at slow speed through a soft fire-brick. It helps if you can reverse the direction too, by putting the disc on back to front.
Another handy hint which may be of more use to you: To effortlessly clean a toilet bowl without using brushes (as if I would), simply throw a tablet of Steradent in and leave it overnight. I have only just learned this one and it is very effective and very cheap.
Until he retired my husbands company made those diamond wheels .....some of the diamond came from de Biers and we used to go to lots of their ‘ do’s ‘ !!! ...... and, they made cutters for Formula One as well but we didn’t get invited to any of the races ..... shame ! Can you tell us the subject of your marble piece ? XXXX
ReplyDeleteIt's a plinth block fabricated from sheet.
DeleteThread it onto a silver chain; every gal's dream.
ReplyDeleteAnd she will walk with a slight stoop.
DeleteShall try the steradent thing.
ReplyDeleteThey work.
DeleteI find the idea of a diamond cutting wheel quite something. My builder lent me one for cutting Moroccan tiles a few years ago, thick, chuncky, tiles that I imported. It cut like butter.
ReplyDeleteIdeally you need a variable speed grinder, but they are quite specialised and more expensive. If you use the diamond discs at about half the speed of an ordinary grinder they cut better.
DeleteOver here it's called RustOut, and it's not used for dentures, too.
ReplyDeleteYour diamond cutting wheel is a blast from the past. My dad and my brother had more than their fair share of them. No idea why.
I bet RustOut was mainly oxalic acid. Diamond cutters used to be very expensive here, but not so much now. That one was about £40 ($50?).
DeleteI use oxalic acid in hopeless attempts to get rust stains out of white marble.
DeleteHa, you have a lifestyle blog! I gave the loo a lazy once over this morning with a denture tablet and was suitably impressed. I've popped a stash of them nearby for future use. I keep them on hand for cleaning vases.
ReplyDeleteGem and industrial diamonds were my life from 25 to 55 then I retired. Industrial diamonds are fascinating, gems rather expensive and dull. Man made diamonds have always been used for industrial purposes and are now becoming more common as gems.
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