I have a old stack of abrasive cutting discs that I received years back with some railroad lights. The lights are long gone, but I still have the cutting discs. They are about 20 inch or so wide discs.
They were used for cutting RR track. That is what I mostly want to use them for. I have some 10 foot sections of track that I had cut down from 30 foot with a cutting torch as a friend needed a 10 foot piece of track. I want to cut pieces of track to 1 foot as they can sell for much more then scrap as hobby anvils. RR track is not that hard to cut, grind or drill. But it will take a good beating. Some people will take a 8 foot or so piece of heavy track and stick about 4 feet of it into the ground of their shop and cement around it. You can hit the end and it won't "flex or give" a bit. SOLID... Look it up anvils made from rail road track. Check out the eBay sold listings. It brings $25.00 or so for a foot of it. Been holding that price for years.
I have thought of making a cutter set up to use them as I have all the parts to do it. Even the proper materials for safety features and such as I wouldn't want to be any where near the cutting discs when they were spinning as I realize that it's a dangerous machine that I would end up with with the proper RPMs. Figured for cutting the track I would have a moving bed to clamp it to so that I could slowly feed it toward the cutting disc and use oil or water, what ever would work best as I have the required parts to make most anything around the yard, and what I don't have I'm sure I can get in trade or for a fist full of dollars.'
Sorry to bud in on your topic, but it got me thinking as I read over this thread. That if I could cut RR track with it, that I can cut other things with it until I ran out of cutting discs.
I'm just putting my plan together as it gives me something interesting to think on.
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