Where do you get your abrasives?
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charlz
Elite Member
I am pretty sure I saw some 7's there are well but maybe I was mistaken. Muratic is also supposed to work for mill scale, I think it is slow though, the biggest downside is the fumes with rust anything in the area.
Brad_Blazer
Veteran Member
I think you got a great price on your brushes. Mcmaster has a nice selection inclluding some 7" but the price is over $20 each.
McMaster-Carr
McMaster-Carr
sal64
Platinum Member
msc industrial supplie
flyerdan
Veteran Member
Any welding supply place will have the 7" cups and abrasives.
Agree that eBay can be a source of some bargains; a while back I was buying full cases of Norton 5" 36g sanding discs for $20 ea., far less than our cost at work for similar.
Agree that eBay can be a source of some bargains; a while back I was buying full cases of Norton 5" 36g sanding discs for $20 ea., far less than our cost at work for similar.
Mark @ Everlast
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I get them from my local welding supply if I can, and its not on a Saturday. They carry Pearl, which have some of the best abrasive products. Also I will, if its on a Saturday, pick up some decent product from my hardware store. They sell dewalt but also sell several other brands, including one called "Ivy" which is a hardware brand I think, but fairly decent in a pinch, and a great price. I also will pick up some at fastenal on sale. They keep a rather large supply too. Not the best regular price, but if it is on sale, I'll pick it up. Their blackstone brand isn't bad, but it isn't great either.
wroughtn_harv
Super Member
There's a couple of boiler rooms out of Phoenix and Tucson that are the pukes of telemarketing. I have a commercial phone number so I can't block them. They sell abrasives and they are rude beyond measure. I have tried everything to get them to take me off their list. A cussing just gets more calls, begging gets more calls, it's like they have the number on a list of hard cases for trainees to work on. I must be on the top of that list.
If there is a gawd and it has any sense of justice these yo yos will die a thousand deaths. I can't screen my calls because each one might be a client or a client to be. Nothing is so frustrating as to have to answer a phone call while working and it is from a failure at selling used cars trying to make it big in telemarketing abrasives.
The truth about abrasives is you get what you pay for. Harbor Freight costs about half of what my welding supply charges and last a third as long. The same thing for the abrasives at the box stores vs those I get at my welding supplier. They might both say Norton but the quality of the product is totally different.
If there is a gawd and it has any sense of justice these yo yos will die a thousand deaths. I can't screen my calls because each one might be a client or a client to be. Nothing is so frustrating as to have to answer a phone call while working and it is from a failure at selling used cars trying to make it big in telemarketing abrasives.
The truth about abrasives is you get what you pay for. Harbor Freight costs about half of what my welding supply charges and last a third as long. The same thing for the abrasives at the box stores vs those I get at my welding supplier. They might both say Norton but the quality of the product is totally different.
I got a call from that company too... I did the opposite of begging them to stop. I kept the guy on the line for absolutely as long as I could. Eventually his supervisor got on the line and told me off for messing with his salesman. I reminded him that I told that salesman early on and several times during that I had no interest in buying several cases of sanding pads. I just refused to hang up.
Was a lot of fun and boy that supervisor was mad. LOL
Ian
Was a lot of fun and boy that supervisor was mad. LOL
Ian
beppington
Elite Member
Well, she was a friend of a friend ... Oh, whoops, this is in the Welding forum.