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Cutting fiber glass
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Charlie Bagwell
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Date: December 06, 2004 08:31AM
What's the best way to cut fiber glass for making plugs and sheaths on repairs?Thanks. Re: Cutting fiber glass
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Cliff Hall
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Date: December 06, 2004 10:10AM
I like those little EXACTO hobby saws that have about 30-40+ teeth to the inch. Michael's and other arts & crafts stores have them. ~ $8. You may find it helpful to place masking tape on either side of the circle of the cut. This will help guide the blade, and reduce any splintering or marring of the surrounding finish if the saw should slip before you get much of a groove going. Use a fine file or fine paper to smooth edges. -Cliff Hall- Re: Cutting fiber glass
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Ellis Mendiola
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Date: December 06, 2004 10:16AM
Cliff hit the nail on the head. His method is the best that I have used and I started building rods on glass blanks. Just barely leave space for the saw blade to fit between the two bands of tape. Don't cut straight through but saw a little bit around the blank at a time. Cheers, Ellis Re: Cutting fiber glass
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Cliff Hall
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Date: December 06, 2004 10:20AM
P.S. - Did you find the article on rod repairs in the RBO-LIBRARY? "Rod Repair" by Ralph O'Quinn, a.k.a. "REPAIRING BROKEN RODS" [www.rodbuilding.org] Re: Cutting fiber glass
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Larry Grimm
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Date: December 06, 2004 10:33AM
I've used a Knife file or a Tri-file also . Be sure to cut around the blank, and use tape as a guide and splinter preventer. Larry Re: Cutting fiber glass
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Randy Parpart (Putter)
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Date: December 06, 2004 11:48AM
I mark it the same and cut it with my Dremel with a cut off blade. Re: Cutting fiber glass
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Steve Kartalia
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Date: December 06, 2004 11:53AM
Cut off wheel and Dremel works fast and perfectly for me on either graphite or fiberglass. Before I got my Dremel, I used a small triangular file to cut blanks, or the edge of a larger bastard file. All work well but the Dremel method is just too easy and fast for me to use any other method now. Re: Cutting fiber glass
Posted by:
Bob Balcombe
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Date: December 06, 2004 02:21PM
I have used the above mentioned methods for cutting both graphite and fiberglass with good results from all. As memtioned earlier. I alwaways tape off my cutting area. to elimenate splinters. Good Wraps Bob Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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