I recently bought a set of tools for a Dremel. There are four sets of mounted stones, white, pink, greeny-blue and greyy-blue. Do the colours mean anything, and if so what?
thx.
-- Peter Fairbrother
"And you're not a gun freak?"
"Oh no. I'm a collector. Huge difference."
"The difference being?"
"I've got more guns."
(BOFH)
White goes with anything. Pink is only for using with close friends Greeny-Blue has to go with greeny blue items or it clashes badly And Greyy-blue is for formal occasions.
-- Regards,
John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
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If you google for 'mounted points' I'm sure you'll get your answers.
is for HSS
is for steel (not hardened)
Blue? Don't they test for color-blindness in the UK? :-)
Nick
They do - I am slightly blue/green colour blind.
I would not call either of them green tho' - and I would eg call a green Rizla packet green, not blue. I passed the IEEEEE.. (does it ever stop) colour-coded-cables test too, it ain't serious.
Hey, I am not prettier than John anyway. Just an ordinary "please" works for me, thanks Steve.
Does that count for anything?
Ta.
What do you use for toffee-ish hardens-if-you-stop-for-an-instant horrible-to-machine alloys?
(eg inconel, esp 750X, raw copper and the like)
Oddly enough if I remember correctly Silicon Carbide stones (ie the greeny / bluey ones) are recommended for non ferrous metals, which is strange as they are also used for very hard tungsten carbide tips.
Incidentally, the colour of aloxite - aluminium oxide - stones is no firm guide to their application. White pink and blue all come in a wide range of bonds and grits to cover the spectrum of uses.
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