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Larry Jaques[_2_] Larry Jaques[_2_] is offline
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On Sun, 16 May 2010 20:55:11 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote the following:

DanG wrote:
Your mind is made up so I know this is a waste of time. Your wild
ass statement about a diamond blade kicking back and cutting a
man's neck is pure hyperbola, fiction, and prevarication. A
diamond blade would be very hard pressed to cut your hand if you
ran it into your hand at full speed. They do an excellent job
cutting really hard things like glass and tile, they really suck
on anything else.


It wasn't a diamond blade
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/627085-m...sed-power-tool


He evidently used a 7-1/4" blade in a 7" angle grinder. (or whatever
your metric equivalent is, eh? 184mm, or 9"/230mm?)
Thanks to Murphy's Law, the Darwin Award is being given to the idiot.

That's one more cleanup in the gene pool, thank goodness.

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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