availability of Abrafile saw blades

does anyone know where you can buy or does anyone have Abrafile saw blades they would like to sell.

I can not find any either in catalogues or off the net except the tunsten carbide type that you use for tiles.

HI John ,You do not say what you want them for ,but for thin metal cutting I use the blades sold for jewellery or silver smithing.They are a bit fragile and take some getting used to., they can be hand sawed or I use them in my hegner saw machine.fret saws are sold in many model shops or Axminster tools sell them made of H.S.steel from 9.5 to 27 TPI .BAHCO blades metal 36,40 and 60TPI .Also spiral blades.Hope this helps Maurice.

Try here?

http://www.millhillsupplies.co.uk/catalogue%20pages%20pdf/page24-29.pdf

I am not endorsing this site but a quick Google search came up with this result.

Andy.

Thank you all for the reply.

I was today using the abrafile to cut out a electric panel on one of our test rigs at work,I could of cut a hole big enough and then split a band saw blade and re--welded it, i could also of used the flypress and cut out as near as possible to the shape that i required.

I have pad saws and peicing saws of differing shapes and sizes but i find that the abrafile because you can change direction because it has cutting teeth all around the saw is most usefull.

I have considered buying a fret saw but for the amount of times i think i would use it outways the expence,but as they say if you had it i would proberly use it more.

One of the people from work who makes clocks says his dad uses a simiar saw in france sold under a nother name, as with my father he used to refer to them as Davis files by the old inventor until another firm started to make them calling them Abrafile.

John

Unfortunately, Abrafile blades are no longer made. I have had them on my Ebay wants for over a year and, although they come up occasionally, they can go for ridiculous prices. Beware of listings of Abrafile "type" blades. They lack the so-useful small ends of the real thing. Permagrit (no connection) do a blade which cuts in any direction but, again, has end fittings which require a larger entry hole.

Rgds

Bill

Whenever I installed electrical boxes (switchgear etc) I used any of the following for slot making; drill, hacksaw, jigsaw, holesaw and files. Depends on the shape you need to remove. I've only used abrafiles on Aluminium sheet or ceramic tiles.

Thank you all both on this site and www.homeworkshop.org.uk site which i also posted a request

Was Googling for letter punches today and came across some abrafile type blades/cutters. Just thought I'd post a link here as I remembered this thread.

**LINK**

Ed.

Could I suggest that if you are going to to post links dredged up from Google, you actually try the link first?

(It's also easier on everyone if you use the link tool in the editor toolbar to post it as a proper, active link).

Hi Bandersnatch,

This was an old thread.

Regards,
Ed.

John, are these the ones I only have 8" course, I can let you have a packet if you PM me your address and I'll deal with it as soon as I get back home from hols. regards Lee

Just realised this was an old post PM'd John in case he still requires them.

Lee

Oooops - sorry!

Hello John,

Back in the 1950's Tyler Spiral Hacksaw Blades were developed and made in England, they are very similar to Abrafile blades but longer.

They are now made by, and still available from, Bestway Products in America.

Contact [email protected]

I have no connection with them apart from being a very happy user, pleased to be able to get these blades.

John

I found some blades a while ago at a boot fair (posibly from a shed clearance ) but the frames are now as rare as hens teeth as people most likely thew them away once they could no longer get blades readily. I did get some adapters from fleabay to allow them to be used in a hacksaw frame but I now need to find a shorter frame. I still hope to spot an abrafile frame in another shed clearance box.

Hello John

You could try making your own?

Nickel plated Diamond powders are available

Recently at a monthly meeting of the Melbourne society of experimental engineers it was explained buy a member who used the process to make lapidary grinding disks. He plated diamond onto copper.

He even plated his own diamond dust. Apparently not that hard.

I ran this search and found some good links.....

**LINK**

There may even be a plater near you who could help you ?

Regards
John

....mmmm about 3 years old! I'm sorry that my post caused any inconvenience!

Andy ;-(

I have a cheap hacksaw frame set up with an abra saw blade in it permanently. it is such a faff taking it down to pass the end of the blade through a 1/16" diam hole to get started, I hold the "other" end of the saw and adapter to the hacksaw with tape. Otherwise you need four hands.

Frank