Angle Grinder stand as brick cutter

[dunkb]

Hi All

Has any body tried using www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-axminster-angle-grinder-stands-prod20849/?utm_campaign=emailclub_13wk28b&utm_content=509261282&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailvision or similar. I am thinking this and a large angle grinder should be just the job.
I may need to knock up a jig but it still should be better than doing it by eye.

Any thoughts?

Dunk

[Happy Baker]

Well, it seems like a cheap solution, and if the three reviews are anything to go by ... that's what it is but I guess if you're only going to use it for one job then it should last the course surely? Just don't bank on it long term, I guess.

[dunkb]

Hi Happy Baker

I hadn't read the reviews, I did wonder how rigid it was. Still it or something similar might make the base for an improvised brick saw. Much modding to be done first though I guess.

[cannyfradock]

Dunk

There's a couple of more reviews on that page now....Overall it doesn't get a good review but at that price £23.20 Inc VAT ...if you could rig it up to work for one oven build it would be well worth the price. You would probably have to modify the base so it's sits firmly on a solid surface as fire-bricks are very hard to cut (when you soak them in water they are a lot easier to cut)

Out of interest, I priced up a decent "clipper" table saw for cutting bricks. The cheapest one I found was £95 for 1 days hire.

Terry

[noddy]

I'm just halfway through building an oven. I first tried cutting tHe firebricks with a diamond wheel - didn't work! the high aluminium content clogs the leading edge of the diamond wheel, the disc turned blue!! - time to re-think. Stone cutting disks made light work of the fire-bricks, but I needed a BIGGER tool! A 9" Titan from 'Screwfix' did the trick, a big cutting disk is certainly easier than a small one and a stone grinding disc makes light work of tidying up your cuts, although keep changing discs is a pain!! Certainly if you can find a solution to straight cuts it would make life easier!