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["Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Hi all,

Before I built my diamond saw I used a system that could be described as a
mixture of the rail and trolley that George spoke about and the angle
grinder parallel cuts.

I attached the big grinder with cutting disc to a contraption that was
adjustable both horizontally and vertically, this all ran on rails, set the
whole thing up so that it makes a cut as deep as you feel like going and run
it past the stone, lower by about the thickness of the cutting disc then
repeat and in a very short time you have you have squared off any surface.

Really what this conversation is actually about is striking a balance
between the amount of  effort you are prepared to expend lifting or just
holding any tool and the quantity of material you can remove.

I find using the 9 inch angle grinder pretty tiring if I have to do for a
whole day so I have a counter balanced rig that I hang from the overhead
gantry, this takes all the weight out of the grinder and means that all I
have to do is point it, not half so wearing on my  taxed muscles.

A note: I am no fan of grinders etc and much prefer to use my 1/2 inch
pneumatic, these days I even find myself dressing surfaces with a point and
a square, rough it all out generally and then just keeping knocking the high
spots off. The thing about the point is that you get a fantastically honest
surface.

Regards to all Clive www.cowwarr.com