Tooled-up Ryobi girl takes nine-inch grinder to Asus beach babe We're obliged to veteran Reg reader Chris Winpenny for nominating what he believes to be a worthy successor to Asus' famous blonde beach babe – last seen enjoying an Eee Pad Transformer Prime before the sun set on her PC-punting career: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime and friend The original Asus beach babe Enter Ryobi …
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They had the right idea, selling the idea that anyone with the get up and go to get on and do can get the job done, though I was concerned about the safety gear. At least she had goggles and gloves though the stone chips might still be a hazard.
I think the slab is secured though it would have been better if the clamp had been give a better showing and doubled up, maybe it was there and not shown. With just one clamp the work can rotate and cause serious issues.
Err, no. For the direction she is cutting (ie- pulling), the rotation of the blade means that it is pulling the grinder down, so if she "hit a hard spot", the grinder would jump forward (away from her) or would wedge itself further down and stop. If she were were cutting per your directions (ie - pushing), then hitting a hard spot means the grinder would jump up out of the kerf and try to walk away.
@AC - "Err, no. For the direction she is cutting (ie- pulling), the rotation of the blade means that it is pulling the grinder down, so if she "hit a hard spot", the grinder would jump forward (away from her) or would wedge itself further down and stop."
You obviously don't cut much. Let me tell you, a grinder or a circular saw will gladly skip toward you in the opposite direction the blade is turning if given half a chance. I've got a couple of scars (small, fortunately) to prove it. You definitely want to push that rotating blade out away from your body - gives you much more leverage and control to keep it off your body.
Don't ever rely on the direction of the blade's rotation to tell you where the grinder/saw is going to end up once it decides to skip out of its groove.
Aye speaking of common sense...
Wouldn't the same flying shards and splinters that make the use of safety glasses mandatory require a tad more covering of the upper body?
She does seem to know what she's doing....but I would bet most male readers will still be looking more at her cleavage than at at her slab grinding tool.
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Why does that video have a soundtrack that sounds like a porn theme done on an overclocked C64 SID chip?
Or is that what you kids listen to these days?
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Oh.
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Absolutely. Any photoshopped image holds no weight as far as I'm concerned. Most especially the ones that are so bad they look like they were done by some lazy high school wannabe with a pirated version of photoshop.
The second amazon ad however, is entirely real. Entirely. Or I've convinced myself of that in any case. Either way, I don't care what anyone thinks.
Probably because they have taken this shot just after the grinder was switched off, hence the small amount of dust and the lack of tense muscles. To take the shot while it was on would be a nightmare has there would be too much dust and other issues interfering with a clean shot. Don't need an IT angle it's bootnotes, of which I hope she is wearing some good safety ones.
Does remind me that I need to get an angle grinder though...
Tense muscles? You're doing it wrong.
You just have to hold the grinder and let it eat its way through the slab. No pulling other than to keep the disc engaged. And once the cut is 80% done you reposition the slab so that it's overhanging the workmate edge facing you, so that when you cut through the last bit both parts are supported; optionally you lay another tile on the one you're cutting (no need for that at the point in the picture, the largest part is on the table, and the tile is heavy enough that it won't easily shift from the force exerted by the cutter)
It's a publicity photo, I've never seen anyone cut a paving slab on a workbench. The normal method is to support it on top of another slab on the floor so the drop is minimal or directly on top of another slab, the lower slab will still have a usable side. If needed you can use your foot to stop the slab from moving.
Obviously they couldn't show this method in the photo as the young lady would have had to bend over further thereby distracting from the product.
I've never seen anyone cut a paving slab on a workbench
Apparently you've never seen anyone cutting paving slabs who values their back.
I've been cutting quite a number of Xella blocks (60x40x10) recently, using a Bosch alligator saw (roughly the same weight as that Ryobi angle grinder). Putting the blocks on a workmate makes it way easier to cut them, as bending over deep you need to keep yourself balanced as well as holding the saw/grinder/whatever, and you're unnecessarily tensing your back and thigh muscles.
I don't disagree with you on the back problem but that's what I see. Working practices differ from place to place.
One thing does puzzle me though. If you do use a workmate then why do you bother with all that 80% faffing about business and not just cut over the gap that opens in the middle of it.
>And once the cut is 80% done you reposition the slab so that it's overhanging the workmate edge facing you,
One thing does puzzle me though. If you do use a workmate then why do you bother with all that 80% faffing about business and not just cut over the gap that opens in the middle of it.
That was about cutting a patio tile using an angle grinder. It also depends on whether you have a square tile or a non-square rectangular one, and along which dimension you need to cut it.
I usually (but not always) have to cut those Xella blocks so that they get shorter. In most of those cases, if you put the block across the workmate's gap, then at the end of the cut at least one of the remaining parts would have its center of gravity outside the work surface and fall to the ground, if you didn't clamp it. So instead I tend to put a couple of leftovers on the workmate, then the block to be cut on top of them, upright. Works Just FIne
I understand you may need to cut out corners and such.
Indeed. Or make blocks lower.
(I am NOT cutting corners. I intend to live in this house for the next 30 years)
BTW, I was using 'workmate' as a generic term for 'thing you put the stuff you're working on'. Mine is indeed made by B&D, the one in the ad clearly isn't, and doesn't appear to have a vice function.
Wrote :- "Apparently you've never seen anyone cutting paving slabs who values their back. ... bending over deep you need to keep yourself balanced .... and you're unnecessarily tensing your back and thigh muscles."
With the slabs down near the ground I kneel down to do the job. I have bits of old carpet to kneel on (my "prayer mats") for such jobs. Yes, bending over while standing would be ridiculous.
Wrote :- "The normal method is to support it on top of another slab on the floor so the drop is minimal or directly on top of another slab, the lower slab will still have a usable side."
What BS. Cutting part way into another slab is a waste of effort and the lower slab will be weakened even if it "will still have a usable side". Some of us lay paving to carry more weight than flower baskets - cars for example. I recently laid paving around my house and two weeks later it had scaffolding standing on it for re-roofing. There must have been several tons of tiles stacked up on that scaffolding, but the paving held. Yours would have cracked.
My way for cutting a slab is to lay it on two baulks of timber with a gap where the cut is to be. On timber the slab is also less likely to slide or "walk around" with vibration
I guess they don't even come with keyboards, anymore.
What you've never seen a Makita calendar?
The EEE girl looked churlish, self absorbed, wasting a perfect day at the beach sorting out pictures of a perfect day at the beach by looking at them edge on. As for the prettiest girl we ever saw saw, at least has a certain contentment.
I can tell most of the people on this comment thread only comment on disc cutters rather than actually use them.
I'd be using ear protection and eye protection. The mass of the slab means clamping is not required, but I'd support the cut off part so avoid damage to the laid surface or feet underneath - toe capped boots only protect the toe!
Someone else (unlikely her due to lack of dust) did the first part of the cut, then she's holding it in the cut and not really cutting, but the disc is running, or it has been 'shopped very well.
Either way, nothing wrong with this. Wonder if this disc cutter is as good as their battery ONE+ kit, which I rate very good.
The information on WIkipedia is wrong for a disc cutter. The picture shows a Metabo Angle Grinder with a cutting disc installed.
The main difference is that an angle grinder is smaller with a motor (usually electric) connected at a right angle to the cutting/grinding disc via a simple gearing.
A disc cutter is essentially a chainsaw with a disk rather than a cutting chain. They are chain or belt driven and are held much like a chainsaw.
An angle grinder can have grinding, sawing, sanding or cutting discs installed but it is still an angle grinder.
That's not the original EeePC picture.
That should be an EeePC 701. Whatever lapbook(sic) that is has been clearly photo-shopped in as she appears to have lost the ends of the fingers on her left hand.
If people have been around here long enough, they will remember that we had decided in the comments that the hands were photo-shopped in to the original picture anyway.
@Far out man: How do you keep the rain out of your chainsaw?
Just because Ryobi won't sell spare brushes doesn't mean that your local electric motor supplier/repairer/rewinder can't. There's only a limited range of sizes for brushes. As long as it has the right cross-section, the length, spring tension and radius aren't critical.
Doesn't matter if the brushes aren't accessible. I remember buying replacement brushes for the blower motor in my car, only to find out there were no plugs holding them in, only way to get them out was to remove the armature, and no way to hold them in place while replacing the armature. Good times, good times (not!)...
Wrote :- "Just because Ryobi won't sell spare brushes doesn't mean that your local electric motor supplier/repairer/rewinder can't."
I'm with Far Out Man. It's not just brushes. Ryobi stuff is crap, I've been there. Things soon start to fail, and I could not find anyone who did Ryobi spares, Dog knows where FoM even found a motor.
Ryobi sell to first-time-buyer amateurs through outfits like B&Q, who know nothing of spares. The machinery specialists I approached said they would not touch Ryobi with a pointed bargepole, not just because they could not get spares either, but because most of their customers were professionals who would get really angry with them for even selling such trash.
Don't believe me? Take a look at www.reviewcentre.com/search.html?searchstring=Ryobi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27034117 initially sounded to me like news from the 1960s or early 70s. I thought that Britain had left behind that sort of thing. Exceptionally, in dear old "Personal Computer World" magazine, you'd see little adverts for computer hardware from the Far East, where a modem or a circuit board was being basically cuddled by a charming young woman who may or may not have had any idea what it was for, no reason why women wouldn't understand technology, but if you know about electronics and static electricity then you don't hold certain items in a certain way. And I don't think even Amstrad sank to that.
And now all of our computers are made in the Far East and we have "lads' mags" that I hadn't really been paying attention to. And this, but this possibly isn't Britain's fault.
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