DJE
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Sorry. Now corrected.Link doesn't work for me.
Sorry. Now corrected.Link doesn't work for me.
Toolova Shootit - I don't think they make them anymore but you can pick them up affordably secondhand, sometimes even crazy cheap, if you're patient.Dont they make a pyrotechnic one?
Something like that hydraulic captured chisel and anvil, only driven by say a shotgun cartridge ought to be fairly effective as an emergency device, and nail guns exist even in the Yook.
Or did I watch Flight of The Pheonix too many times as a yoof?
One could perhaps wax the cartridges.Toolova Shootit - I don't think they make them anymore but you can pick them up affordably secondhand, sometimes even crazy cheap, if you're patient.
Emergency Rigging Cutters - Practical Sailor
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Uses Hilti caliber 6.8 / 18M cartridges, part number 50604/8.
The cartridges are prone to corrosion in a saltwater environment.
But not with either pork or beef fat...not if you may have any crew of certain religious dispositions onboard. The Brits tried similar in around 1857, and it didn't go well...One could perhaps wax the cartridges.
That'd be grease, not wax.But not with either pork or beef fat...not if you may have any crew of certain religious dispositions onboard. The Brits tried similar in around 1857, and it didn't go well...![]()
A lot is about familiarity with using the more modern hand grinders, very light weight and with auto stop braking, many on here like myself will have spent many hours using hand grinders whilst working whist hanging off ladders and scaffolding and using them one handed. Very different though with the big disc grinders.I always struggle to imagine myself on deck with an electric angle grinder (battery or otherwise) in a scenario where I am likely to have lost my mast...but do appreciate that this is not always on a dark n stormy Atlantic passage.