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The plastic hook is quite hard and relatively thick, so my friend was concerned I wouldn't be able to cut it apart.

I explained that I cut plastics all the time: a little dollar store #hacksaw works amazingly well for the cut, and a multipack of fine-grit #sandpapers from #CanadianTire* lets me take care of any nasty edges.

* Seriously, automotive refinishing sandpapers are like MAGIC for fixing plastic things that are too sharp/snag, etc. ❤️

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Do you want to learn #hacking ? Does your local #hackspace have the right tools, like the #hacksaw ?

If not, don't worry. You can build one from sources. Exploit a piece of thick wire to get the OneWire saw!

Watch out while #bootstrapping : hack off the ends with another saw.

It's lightweight but robust. The only holes are in the blade, and the blade is well secured.

It can't attack flat surfaces, but I fetched a good branch and did a #penetration test. It's as good as the legacy design!

Three hack saws lying on a mossy stone: the rightmost is a big and heavy one. The middle is made out of wire, and the one on the left is a differently bent wire. It also doesn't have a blade.

Two hack saws with their blades stuck into a thick but crumpling branch lied on a mossy stone. The blades look straight. The left one is made of wire, and the right one out of thick metal and has a wooden handle.

#TheBeatles! Yes, who else? #Sonia! Yes, and…? Err… #AtomicKitten? Who else?

#Liverpool has a long and rich history of contributing to popular music. #ESCApocalypse's sage (and the Pete Best of Bristol noise delivery mechanism #Hacksaw) Roy Delaney explores its sonic history and the names worth
knowing.

https://escinsight.com/2023/05/02/liverpool-is-the-city-of-pop-music/

Promotional postcard of "The Real Thing", for an article talking about pop music from Liverpool.

Fail of the Week: A Bigger Hacksaw Isn’t a Better Hacksaw

If we're being honest, the main reason to buy a power tool is to avoid the pain of using one's muscles. Oh sure, we dress it up with claims that a power tool will make us more productive, or give better results, but more often than not it's the memory of how your forearm feels after a day of twisting a screwdriver that makes you buy a cordless driver.

It appears that [Artisan Makes] has a high tolerance for pain, seeing how the main prep tool in his metal shop is a plain old hacksaw. So in an effort to speed up his stock prep, he turned not to a bandsaw or cutoff saw, but instead built the world's silliest hacksaw. It's the metalworking equivalent of the two-man bucksaws that lumberjacks used to fell trees before chainsaws came along, and at a meter and half in length, it's about the size of one too. Modifying the frame of his trusty hacksaw was easy -- he just popped the end pieces off and attached them to an extra-long piece of tube stock. Finding a 1.5-meter hacksaw blade was the main challenge; not exactly a big-box store item, that. So a section of metal-cutting bandsaw blade was modified to fit the frame, and it was off to the races.

Or not. The video below tells the tale of woe, which starts with the fact that [Artisan]'s shop is too small for the hilariously long hacksaw. Solving the fixturing problems didn't soo much to help, though -- there was no way to tension the blade enough to get it to stop wobbling during cutting. It was also clear that the huge saw wasn't able to apply enough downforce on the stock to get good cuts. Maybe with a second set of hands, though…

There are plenty of ways to improve hacksawing in the shop, and while this isn't one of them, we sure appreciate the chuckle we got out of it. And you really should check out [Artisan Makes]' channel -- his more serious stuff is really good.

#failoftheweek #bandsaw #cutting #fotw #hacksaw #handtools #metalworking

#hacksaw

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