Tooled-up Ryobi girl takes nine-inch grinder to Asus beach babe We're obliged to veteran Reg reader Chris Winpenny for nominating what he believes to be a worthy successor to Asus' famous blonde beach babe – last seen enjoying an Eee Pad Transformer Prime before the sun set on her PC-punting career: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime and friend The original Asus beach babe Enter Ryobi …
The information on WIkipedia is wrong for a disc cutter. The picture shows a Metabo Angle Grinder with a cutting disc installed.
The main difference is that an angle grinder is smaller with a motor (usually electric) connected at a right angle to the cutting/grinding disc via a simple gearing.
A disc cutter is essentially a chainsaw with a disk rather than a cutting chain. They are chain or belt driven and are held much like a chainsaw.
An angle grinder can have grinding, sawing, sanding or cutting discs installed but it is still an angle grinder.
That's not the original EeePC picture.
That should be an EeePC 701. Whatever lapbook(sic) that is has been clearly photo-shopped in as she appears to have lost the ends of the fingers on her left hand.
If people have been around here long enough, they will remember that we had decided in the comments that the hands were photo-shopped in to the original picture anyway.
@Far out man: How do you keep the rain out of your chainsaw?
Just because Ryobi won't sell spare brushes doesn't mean that your local electric motor supplier/repairer/rewinder can't. There's only a limited range of sizes for brushes. As long as it has the right cross-section, the length, spring tension and radius aren't critical.
Doesn't matter if the brushes aren't accessible. I remember buying replacement brushes for the blower motor in my car, only to find out there were no plugs holding them in, only way to get them out was to remove the armature, and no way to hold them in place while replacing the armature. Good times, good times (not!)...
Wrote :- "Just because Ryobi won't sell spare brushes doesn't mean that your local electric motor supplier/repairer/rewinder can't."
I'm with Far Out Man. It's not just brushes. Ryobi stuff is crap, I've been there. Things soon start to fail, and I could not find anyone who did Ryobi spares, Dog knows where FoM even found a motor.
Ryobi sell to first-time-buyer amateurs through outfits like B&Q, who know nothing of spares. The machinery specialists I approached said they would not touch Ryobi with a pointed bargepole, not just because they could not get spares either, but because most of their customers were professionals who would get really angry with them for even selling such trash.
Don't believe me? Take a look at www.reviewcentre.com/search.html?searchstring=Ryobi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27034117 initially sounded to me like news from the 1960s or early 70s. I thought that Britain had left behind that sort of thing. Exceptionally, in dear old "Personal Computer World" magazine, you'd see little adverts for computer hardware from the Far East, where a modem or a circuit board was being basically cuddled by a charming young woman who may or may not have had any idea what it was for, no reason why women wouldn't understand technology, but if you know about electronics and static electricity then you don't hold certain items in a certain way. And I don't think even Amstrad sank to that.
And now all of our computers are made in the Far East and we have "lads' mags" that I hadn't really been paying attention to. And this, but this possibly isn't Britain's fault.
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