On 9 Mar, 18:54, NT wrote:
On Mar 9, 5:31*pm, "Mungo \"Two Sheds\" Toadfoot"



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"Bob Minchin" wrote in message

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The Medway Handyman wrote:
Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote:
How powerful are they? Will any of them go through, for example, a
10mm steel bolt in less than an hour? Any specific recommendations
other than "angle grinder"?

I've got a Dremel sitting in a box somewhere in the back of the workshop.
Chocolate teapot. *Actually I doubt it would cut through a chocolate
teapot.

Agreed. An angle grinder is just the right tool for a 10mm bolt surely?

Not when it's two inches from your nose or if you have to use it one-handed.
Then there's the matter of other uses such as polishing/de-rusting etc. The
10mm bolt was just an measure of how powerful the things are as I've got a
couple of these tools that run off mains transformers and they'd struggle to
grind a sugar lump.

Si

No problem for a dremel to cut a 10mm bolt. But the cutting discs are
wafer thin and extremely fragile, expect to break a few rapidly until
you realise just how steady it has to be held.

I've used one of the low voltage cheap brands too, pretty useless.

NT

I use mini fibre reinforced discs that come round in accessory packs
at Aldidl, 2.99 for whole pile of stuff , Dremel cutting discs about
11 quid for 5 , just like angle grinder disc but size of 2 p piece,
work extremely well, using flexi drive gives a nice pencil like grip.

Its a bacon saver in some instances

Still not worked out what similar size pink discs are for, they
shatter pretty much on contact with anything.

Sold my old Minicrafts to a collector in US , Aldi item is 240V 160W
motor, power to weight ratio pretty good.

Cheers
Adam