Cleaning the shed
I realized I had two large pieces of glas left over from a late-fall window replacement project.
I didn’t want to break them in the yard, but they didn’t fit in the garbage can as is.
I have so many piles of crap around the house, I HAVE to have a CBN insert laying around here somewhere, right?
No suck luck. No diamond, in fact, anywhere in the toolbox (which is unusual, usually I have at least one PCD drill to get me out of a tight spot, like a broken tap)
So I stare at the big sheet of glass, thinking, damn, I don’t want to have to dig all those shards out of the grass.
And then I realize I have a diamond stone in my pocket. So I take it out, open it, and scribe a line across the sheet. I tap it with a screwdriver handle on the back, and it pops clean. And again, and it does it again. So I manage to cut up the glass into manageable sized pieces using nothing more than the diamond hone I keep in my pocket all the time. This is the one I carry, highly reccomended. And now I have a new use for it.
+1 MacGyver
A piece of chipped flint will also work.
I’m surprised you don’t own a glass cutter, honestly.
So who needs a glass cutter when there are so many other things that will get the job done? My dad cut a sheet of glass to fit a window frame by filing a point on a 20D nail, heating it to red with a propane torch and quenching it in mercury. Cut that pane like it was sheet rock. The same tekneekew works on cheap twist drills to make ’em hard enough to drill glass. Use kerosene as a cutting fluid.
Of course, you have to use your head for something other than a hat rack and stay upwind of the mercury fumes.
Gerry N.
You’re better than Red Green! (wait, I’m not sure if that is the compliment I meant it to be).
Wood cutting party weekend after next I understand. I’m heading up that Saturday morning, will see you there!
And of course, everybody has five pounds of mercury in their garage.
(Not that I’m kidding. At all. Anybody want it?)
Nathan, want it? Hells yes.
Think it’s a good idea to have, based on how much trouble I can get myself in with it? Perhaps not.
Where are you located? (State is close enough….)