Where do you get your abrasives?

[Haywire]

I want a 7" twisted wire wheel and a 36 grit flap disk. Lowes and HD don't carry stuff like that.

Ian

 

[jmanatee2]

I found a 7" flap disc (40 grit) at norther tools,... Norton 40-Grit Flap Disc — 7in. | Sanding + Conditioning Discs | Northern Tool + Equipment

Biggest twisted wheel was 4.5" at Harbor freight

4-1/2" Knotted Wire Wheel

 

[Haywire]

I did a little internet searching and found this one... 6" x 5/8-11 thread. I was just wondering if anyone had a good online supplier with exceptional pricing.

Ian

 

[mjncad]

Give ENCO a try. Enco - Guaranteed Lowest Prices on Machinery, Tools and Shop Supplies

 

[Shield Arc]

I use these two search engines for the best price, but if I can I use Ram Welding Supply. Only because of free shipping on purchases over $50.00. I hate paying these high prices for shipping, but Ram is not always the cheapest! To see Ram's prices you have to sign up.

Google Product Search

Nextag - Compare Prices Before you Buy

Ram Welding Supplies - Your Welder's Toolbox!

 

[marimus]

I'm liking the cut-off wheels from smith and arrow at the moment. Seem to last longer than any of the other brands i've tried of late, and cheap too :thumbsup:

Smith & Arrow Metal Abrasives Cut Off Wheels Flap Discs Grinding Wheels

 

[204saskman]

I get my flap disks off ebay. Seems to be the cheapest place. Zip disks i buy locally as they go on sale fairly often for about 1.5-2 bucks for 7" or .75 for 4.5"

 

[kevinj]

At the local ind supply house. Prices are good & good quality products.

 

[Haywire]

I made my order at the link I posted above. They had everything I wanted and I didn't have to buy a case of them like some of the others places. You just have to buy enough to make the shipping charge worth while. For instance, the shipping for 2 wire wheels was $12 and the shipping for 2 wire wheels, 2 flap wheels and 5 cutoff disks was still $12.

Ian

 

[charlz]

My Lowes has a pretty good selection of the flap disks. Maybe they don't go that low in grit. I like the finer ones as they don't take of as much metal with the rust etc.

For removing mill scale I recently tried the vinegar thing and that actually worked really well but took a few days.

 

[Haywire]

Lowes had a good selection of 4.5" flap disks, but no 7".

I went a little overboard and poured a little puddle of muriatic acid on to see if it would lean up some plate. Nope, it didn't, and I wasn't going to leave it on very long to see what it would do.

Ian

 

[charlz]

I am pretty sure I saw some 7's there are well but maybe I was mistaken. Muratic is also supposed to work for mill scale, I think it is slow though, the biggest downside is the fumes with rust anything in the area.

 

[Haywire]

It did fume pretty good. Lots of rust. I ended up grinding it off with the new-to-me Makita 7" angle grinder.

Ian

 

[Brad_Blazer]

I think you got a great price on your brushes. Mcmaster has a nice selection inclluding some 7" but the price is over $20 each.
McMaster-Carr

 

[sal64]

msc industrial supplie

 

[flyerdan]

Any welding supply place will have the 7" cups and abrasives.
Agree that eBay can be a source of some bargains; a while back I was buying full cases of Norton 5" 36g sanding discs for $20 ea., far less than our cost at work for similar.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

I get them from my local welding supply if I can, and its not on a Saturday. They carry Pearl, which have some of the best abrasive products. Also I will, if its on a Saturday, pick up some decent product from my hardware store. They sell dewalt but also sell several other brands, including one called "Ivy" which is a hardware brand I think, but fairly decent in a pinch, and a great price. I also will pick up some at fastenal on sale. They keep a rather large supply too. Not the best regular price, but if it is on sale, I'll pick it up. Their blackstone brand isn't bad, but it isn't great either.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

There's a couple of boiler rooms out of Phoenix and Tucson that are the pukes of telemarketing. I have a commercial phone number so I can't block them. They sell abrasives and they are rude beyond measure. I have tried everything to get them to take me off their list. A cussing just gets more calls, begging gets more calls, it's like they have the number on a list of hard cases for trainees to work on. I must be on the top of that list.

If there is a gawd and it has any sense of justice these yo yos will die a thousand deaths. I can't screen my calls because each one might be a client or a client to be. Nothing is so frustrating as to have to answer a phone call while working and it is from a failure at selling used cars trying to make it big in telemarketing abrasives.

The truth about abrasives is you get what you pay for. Harbor Freight costs about half of what my welding supply charges and last a third as long. The same thing for the abrasives at the box stores vs those I get at my welding supplier. They might both say Norton but the quality of the product is totally different.

 

[Haywire]

I got a call from that company too... I did the opposite of begging them to stop. I kept the guy on the line for absolutely as long as I could. Eventually his supervisor got on the line and told me off for messing with his salesman. I reminded him that I told that salesman early on and several times during that I had no interest in buying several cases of sanding pads. I just refused to hang up.

Was a lot of fun and boy that supervisor was mad. LOL

Ian

 

[beppington]

Well, she was a friend of a friend ... Oh, whoops, this is in the Welding forum.