Re: Simpler solution - angle grinder
But I'll bet the missus'll be livid if you try that on her!
And there'd be rather a lot of blood. Not to mention some unwanted attention from the constabulary!
US chap sharpens paradigm-busting scissors
The list of what the Romans ever did for us is impressive indeed, and apparently includes taking time between building aqueducts and making wine to invent the pivoting scissors, in around 100AD. What the Romans unforgivably didn't ever do, though, was crack just how to cut wire mesh with scissors without doing yourself some …
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Tuesday 23rd January 2018 12:01 GMT onefang
Re: Simpler solution - angle grinder
"Also works for cutting the wife's toe nails which I doubt those scissors could manage."
I also use power tools to cut my toenails. Long story short, they where surgically mutilated long ago, now grow about a cm thick. On the plus side, only need to cut them once every few years.
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Wednesday 9th March 2016 19:04 GMT Alistair
wow.
Good to see others have sheet metal tools about.
My granpappy's toolbox has em in it. (offset shears, 60 and 80 degree pairs) <stowed in mom's basement at the moment> and it dates back to the 1890's, since it was *his* da's. And it has a pair of leather shears with the same feature.
(I periodically raid that toolbox, if only for the wood planes. Best damn planer I've ever used, and ... its *made* out of wood, what type I do not know)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
