Diamond blades - Good price

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Post: # 79791Post GB_Groundworks

sell them or let the labourers destroy them and keep the good one for you haha
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Post: # 79802Post mickg

I bought a Duro 2 weeks ago for cutting Marshalls fairstone driveway paving from Benchmark - £ 42 its a crcking blade and will also cut metal up to 5mm too
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Post: # 79809Post lutonlagerlout

what made you change from marcrist mick?
for some weird reason blades seem to be improving lately after years of dross
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Because I was using the Marcrist but it was sparking and turned blue due to a lot of the stone being very hard, used the Duro blades in the past and just happened to call in the merchants and they had them on display
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Post: # 83365Post lutonlagerlout

sad day today the first pulvex blade finally gave up the ghost
I have never had a blade cut so much so well
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luckily had the new one ready
cut in a 55M drive this morning
1 lad marking ,1 bringing and me cutting
great blades
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Post: # 83371Post Kuts

Anybody tried Trojan blades? by far the best i've used in both road saw and sthil.
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Post: # 83380Post lutonlagerlout

kuts for me personally i was dubious
but when noony recommended them I went for it
you cant beat the word of pros
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Are you using an asphalt blade or a multi-use one Kuts?
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Post: # 83386Post Kuts

They have a multi that cuts both well.
I was cutting through 50mm of hotroll over reinforced concrete like butter (full depth)
http://www.trojanlimited.co.uk/diamond....de.aspx
Rescue blade looks good
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Marking and then bringing and cutting? Tony surely not? You mean straight edge, marking and cutting in situe?
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Post: # 83389Post lutonlagerlout

because of the rain friday night the laying course was sopping wet dan ,so we did it the tedious way
did another load of mitres on the corners,i like the mitres and it only takes 5 minutes each one
we sanded it and wacked and a fair bit of water came up
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bit wasteful there Tony, I can see another 1.5mm of usage :D
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Post: # 83408Post Noony

our pulvex one went this week too. lasted since march and has done a hell of a lot of cutting. just put the new one on, hope it lasts as long too!!
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for dans benefit
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just do the crossword at lunchtime, less effort. :)
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