[TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes

[peter fels]

On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:

> There are wire wheels "potted" (thoroughly impregnated) with rubber.
> I've seen these but never tried them.  In principal, they should be
> less likely to throw wires, and slightly less likely to snag the work.
> 
> I'm wondering whether it might make sense to impregnate at least the
> inner part of the wires in rubber like this to relieve to some extent
> the stress they're under at the base, thus subjecting them to less
> fatigue (from bending back and forth at the base) and, hence,
> breakage.  Any thoughts?
> 


Seems right Bruce..certainly would be safer, cut more aggressively
and last longer.
The drawback i see is that one usually uses a wire wheel to get penetration into 
depressed features in a surface and potted wires won't penetrate very deeply.