"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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T i m wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2016 02:12:05 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 07:18:35 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:

Which dexion are you talking about, the roughly 5x3" angle with
very large holes in it for bolts, or the 25mm square black slotted
tube with knock in corners ?

I've never seen Dexion that size

Nor me. 25mm square black (unslottted) tube with knock in joints
sounds more like (Dexion) Speedframe?

Yes. Made some speaker stands from it. They once did a smaller version
(20mm?) in matt chrome.

I use an angle grinder in a stand with steel cutting disc to cut it.

I use a 10" hand held circular saw in my own cutoff saw stand
with a steel cutting disk to cut it but I was asking if he uses that
other blade to do that.

I now have 3 dedicate cutoff saws which is handy because the
switch in that circular saw that I used to build the house with
has now died.

I've use my sliding saw to cut ally - not sure I'd want to risk an
expensive blade on steel. Even one which claims to cut it. ;-)

Yeah, that's what I have done so far but was wondering if he
found it works fine so it might be worth trying myself.

The steel cutting disk isnt perfect in the sense that you do
get a bit of flange of steel that you need to trim with an
angle grinder after cutting it and I've always had some
reservations about what it would be like if the disk
comes apart in use. Not that I have ever had one fail.

My local Dexion stockist is no more. Now a block of expensive flats. ;-)

I can't find anyone local selling the dexion slotted tube
anymore and was considering importing a pack or two of it.

I got one when I was building the house and have
now used it all for shelving and need to do some
more, mainly for full floor to ceiling bookshelves
covering an entire quite large wall.

I should really just guillotine the spines off in a massive
great hydraulic guillotine and use a decent scanner to
turn all the books into ebooks but that seems a tad
gung ho even for me.