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Cutting Fiberglass-Rotary Cutter
When using a rotary cutter for cutting glass material, there are a couple of
brands to consider and also the size of the blade. Fiskars uses a stainless steel blade and OLFA uses a tungsten carbon blade which will last three to four times longer than the Fiskars Tool. Also, from my experience you are better off to use a 60mm Tool for cutting the various glass materials. A word of caution, if you do not use some sort of cutting mat to cut your material, you will dull your blade very fast. Most of my customers uses a cutting mat while using this tool. In your application, it appears that you will not be able to utilize this mat since you are cutting the material off an existing platform. Another possibility is using a utility knife if you do not have a lot of material to cut. I would recommend the OLFA NOL-1 Knife with the UltraMax Blade. This tool has a ratcheting lock, so that you can set your desired blade length. OLFA is the inventor of the breakoff blades and the new UltraMax blade is 30% sharper than the standard breakoff blades and will last about 25% longer. The OLFA Tools do have a life-time guarantee. Another possibility is to use the proper shear to cut your material. Today, there are some new shears in which the blades are configured to cut the various types of fiberglass materials. Your standard shears such as WISS really do not have the right configuration to properly cut some of today's new materials. Hope that this information helps you with your applications. Regards, Derek -- Specialty Sales Systems Derek Hartmann, President http://www.specialtyshears.com "Specializing in Scissors and Shears" 1718 Kingsley Ave. Ste. 4 Orange Park, FL 32073 (800) 978-4423 Voice (904) 278-0531 Fax |
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Cutting Fiberglass-Rotary Cutter
You mean cutting out glass tape (from cloth) on my concrete driveway will
limit the life of my rotary cutter? You don't say! Actually, I just use plywood and yes, I use and like my 60mm Olfa rotary cutter. Note that the Olfa replacement blades say "carbide" in the description, but the original tool description doesn't tell you what kind of blade is in it. Olfa verified for me that the original blade is tungsten carbide just like the replacement blades. Brian -- My boat project: http://www.advantagecomposites.com/tongass "Derek Hartmann" wrote in message ... When using a rotary cutter for cutting glass material, there are a couple of brands to consider and also the size of the blade. Fiskars uses a stainless steel blade and OLFA uses a tungsten carbon blade which will last three to four times longer than the Fiskars Tool. Also, from my experience you are better off to use a 60mm Tool for cutting the various glass materials. A word of caution, if you do not use some sort of cutting mat to cut your material, you will dull your blade very fast. Most of my customers uses a cutting mat while using this tool. In your application, it appears that you will not be able to utilize this mat since you are cutting the material off an existing platform. Another possibility is using a utility knife if you do not have a lot of material to cut. I would recommend the OLFA NOL-1 Knife with the UltraMax Blade. This tool has a ratcheting lock, so that you can set your desired blade length. OLFA is the inventor of the breakoff blades and the new UltraMax blade is 30% sharper than the standard breakoff blades and will last about 25% longer. The OLFA Tools do have a life-time guarantee. Another possibility is to use the proper shear to cut your material. Today, there are some new shears in which the blades are configured to cut the various types of fiberglass materials. Your standard shears such as WISS really do not have the right configuration to properly cut some of today's new materials. Hope that this information helps you with your applications. Regards, Derek -- Specialty Sales Systems Derek Hartmann, President http://www.specialtyshears.com "Specializing in Scissors and Shears" 1718 Kingsley Ave. Ste. 4 Orange Park, FL 32073 (800) 978-4423 Voice (904) 278-0531 Fax |
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