Tooling - Diamond dust coated minature cutting disks

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's......... .....

Some 12 months back, I needed to accurately cut a piece of 5.0 mm diameter boiler glass gauge tube.......
Successive attempts ....despite learned readings resulted in many breakages  & lots of expletives 

So I purchased a brand name 20 diameter diamond dust coated cutting disk ....& it performed brilliantly in cutting the glass & has continued the cutting of K&S brass tubing
The propriety branded disk was $23.80 + $6.00 postage within Australia
= $29.80 per individual disk

Today I have just placed an e-bay order for a parcel of ten x pieces of the near identical 20/22 diameter diamond dust coated cutting disks for $9.26 including free postage to OZ
= $0.926 per individual disk..........

I think the ten diamond dust coated discs will probably exceed me........... .......Derek

[bill stafford]

good to hear about some workshop tips -in this days of theft , most dont like to show you the shop , but thats how i find a lot of simple ,good ideas
the memorys not so good , but I intend to construct some pine ammo boxes , for bulk storage of raw metal , 1 for copper , 1 for brass ,1 for bronze , alum , nylon etc
then when i build the work bench , i will place all these boxes together ,at 1 end ,paint on the box whats in it , to centralize there storage .
 i have seen a few other good ideas , but have forgotten most of them
1 other that comes to mind ,i use a tool clip to hold the drill chuck key+fitted a light to the side of my drill press/mill.
 Im also in the process of building a boiler soon ,sorting out red tape , but i think i will have no choice ,but to self test and no AMBSC certification , as no ME club wants to help ,with such a simple boiler
regards bill s