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Michael Koblic Michael Koblic is offline
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Default 6" cut-off wheel in a bench grinder

Ha! The economics of tools is something I only started appreciating the last
two years.
Canadian Tire is very funny like that. They have obviously acquired a boat
load of various tools they have difficulty shifting. Even heavy discounts
(4-1/2" angle grinder for less than $20) do not seem to help. Then they
start inventing all kinds of gimmicks to sell the stuff - in the case of the
said grinder they made a stand for it to make it into a quasi-chop saw. I
doubt that they sold many.

They have produced a "cutting tool" which is like nothing else. It also does
not sell as judging by the on-going discounts. I had a look at it - it was
quite useless!

There are quite a few other examples.

I sort of looked at the tile saw last time it went on sale (I was cutting
stones at one stage) but dismissed it as my grinder did the same job with a
diamond blade - dry!

To be fair, they do sell some very good stuff and they have a liberal return
policy.

Thanks for the tip.

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Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC


"Steve W." wrote in message
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Nope, no problem as long as I kept the water flowing. I would bet the
plastic would melt without coolant. Don't try to cut the notches all in
one pass and let the part cool down a bit and it would reduce the risk to
about zero.

I can't imagine why a company that also make metal cutting tools would
tell you not to buy a cheaper tool to do the same job ;-)

The tile saw I have uses the same grinder that I use for normal use, it
does have a rubber sleeve that keep water out but other than that it's the
same design.

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Steve W.