Just in case you run out of abrasive cutting discs...

Saw this video just now - its amazing what you can do with a sheet of paper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NstGw3LYw&feature=youtu.be

Here I help..

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 16/05/2017 18:01:02

Thanks!

Tony,

Now that you are living out in the sticks, I guess you have to improvise.

Ketan at ARC.

We do indeed - we can't just pop down to Be and Queue anymore...

That looks cool! I've been trimming the length of a carbon fibre tube recently holding it in a lathe collet rotating slowly and using an abrasive disc in my Proxxon - I wonder if this would do the job? Wouldn't get abrasive dust on the lathe for one thing.

Fascinating. on wood you can see it scorching and burning away.

Watch your finger with this, a paper cut really hurts.

Indeed...and the paper disc will cut skin far more easily than a conventional abrasive cutting disc.

I used to work on large printing machines and the paper used to cut through tool steel!

Doesn't surprise me - many papers are finished using minerals such as calcium carbonate or clay, and so will be abrasive.

Well-found, Tony

Definitely worth remembering !!

MichaelG.

Nice find Tony; must remember this one...if I can remember where my memory banks are...

​George.

Reminds me of how cross my mother used to be if you used her dress-making scissors for paper.

Apparently the stitching on early cloth covered aircraft could cut through internal bracing wires if allowed to fret together.
BobH

I work with digital photo printers (17,00 prints per hour) and we are changing the side guides quite often as the paper cuts through them - it's really abrasive

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Edited By Limpet on 17/05/2017 21:39:11

If you ever find yourself in jail, you can slowly cut through iron window bars using thread.

Neil

Are you speaking from experience Neil ?

Keith

I'm about half way though so you've got three more years before I escape...

Neil

I went to a demo of an early laser line printer many years ago, a big machine for printing high volume stuff like bank statements and utility bills. The fan-fold paper went through the printer so fast that it caught fire. It made quite an impression.

Anyone else noticed that demonstrations are much more likely to go wrong than real life, and that the probability of an embarrassing disaster is directly proportional to the importance of the guest?

They say the Queen thinks the world outside the palace smells of fresh paint because everything gets redecorated just before she arrives. I doubt any technical demo ever went well in her presence.

Dave