[TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes

[peter fels]

The plastic rods or fibers have a graded abrasive embedded in the plastic .
They will not aggressively rip everything off a surface like a stiff wire brush...
on the other hand, neither will they instantly remove all the meat from your knuckles.

On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:

> No, They look like a wire wheel, but instead of wire it is made up with a 
> bunch of small (16 ga) stiff rods that are made of nylon or some other 
> plastic/composit material. They look like and work like a wire wheel just 
> not quite as agressive and the rods ware down instead of breaking off.
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
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> So, they are something like the Scotchbrite wheels or the 3M paint stripping 
> wheels then I would guess?
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> A few years ago I got a deal on a bunch of wire wheels that were made of
> some kind of nylon/fiber. They are not as agressive as steel wire wheels,
> but they never break off. They just gradually ware down until they are gone.
> One problem, they melt so can't be used on hot steel.
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
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