Chasing into engineering brick

[Tony Reidy]

You where lucky, when I where a lad it was 40 doubles and all they gave me was a blunt rawl plug tool and a toffee hammer...........

No spoon

 

[Squid]

No spoon

Nope, I had to use the rawl plug tool to spoon sugar and to stir the tea as well......

 

[Tony Reidy]

Nope, I had to use the rawl plug tool to spoon sugar and to stir the tea as well......

I once used my pad saw as a butter knife

 

[Squid]

I once used my pad saw as a butter knife

I saw Last Tango in Paris so keep that one to yourself........

 

[telectrix]

like this?

 

[Andy82]

This forum never lets me down! Angle grinder went through the brick like it was warm chocolate.

So much dust though, you really weren’t joking @James the Spark1976 !

 

[Dave5678]

This forum never lets me down! Angle grinder went through the brick like it was warm chocolate.

So much dust though, you really weren’t joking @James the Spark1976 !

It's worth getting a dedicated wall chaser. It's effectively two angle grinder blades in an enclosure with a vacuum cleaner port which keeps the dust down.

 

[Squid]

like this?

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I don't think that lot would fit even if you lube'd up with partially melted tallow.......

 

[AJshep]

Glad the grinder did the trick..

Talking of engineering bricks...
I had a kitchen to do last year, with some of the hardest engineering bricks I'd ever seen.
4x 5.5mm SDS drill bits and 3 sets of Diamond blades on my chaser, you had to deburr the wall after running a cut up the wall.. There so much metal mixed in with some of the bricks you could literally stick a magnet to the wall.

I got there in the end, anyone else ever seen bricks like that ?

 

[Squid]

Glad the grinder did the trick..

Talking of engineering bricks...
I had a kitchen to do last year, with some of the hardest engineering bricks I'd ever seen.
4x 5.5mm SDS drill bits and 3 sets of Diamond blades on my chaser, you had to deburr the wall after running a cut up the wall.. There so much metal mixed in with some of the bricks you could literally stick a magnet to the wall.

I got there in the end, anyone else ever seen bricks like that ?

They where thinking a few years back to turn steel mill waste/dust into bricks for construction, known as waelz slag, maybe it was something similar from years back.

 

[Toneyz]

They where thinking a few years back to turn steel mill waste/dust into bricks for construction, known as waelz slag, maybe it was something similar from years back.

Termolight blocks are a bi-product

 

[AJshep]

They where thinking a few years back to turn steel mill waste/dust into bricks for construction, known as waelz slag, maybe it was something similar from years back.

Could well have been. It was an old house, probably 1940s hopefully I won't come across them again, as it cost me £100 on diamond blades.

 

[a-z electrics]

You where lucky, when I where a lad it was 40 doubles and all they gave me was a blunt rawl plug tool and a toffee hammer...........

you had a TOFFEE hammer..? Bloody Luxury! we had to cut out our shin bone and head butt it against the wall for 5 nights solid... but you tell youngsters today and they just don't believe you..

 

[Squid]

Could well have been. It was an old house, probably 1940s hopefully I won't come across them again, as it cost me £100 on diamond blades.

I have a wall in the house made of some sort of fibrous board that's been there years, took the death off my pad saw when trying to cut it.

 

[Jjc]

Lol.

Naughty, naughty not politically correct

 

[Toneyz]

Naughty, naughty not politically correct

I think that this is the image he has of SWD.

 

[brianmoooore]

There are many houses around where I live built from a light yellow brick known as a Marland brick, after the clay works where they were made.
These bricks are undoubtedly the world's hardest bricks, destroying SDS bits with ease, and causing diamond cutting discs to cook and warp.
There are black areas inside of them where a diamond disc makes next to no progress, with a black lava like substance oozing from the slot and solidifying on the surface.

 

[Zerax]

...There are black areas inside of them where a diamond disc makes next to no progress, with a black lava like substance oozing from the slot and solidifying on the surface.

Could it be ectoplasm ?

 

[Squid]

Are the faggots for when you get hungry half way through the job?

English people eat rubbish, what are these faggots you talk of?

 

[EalingBadger]

Are the faggots for when you get hungry half way through the job?

What I'd like to know is where can you get a decent ------ these days?

Every butcher I try generally gives a response along the line of "there's no demand around here mate".

Every time I find myself passing through a new town I try to find the local independent butcher to check out there stock.

Does this make me a ------ tourist?