G'Day Peter - a month or so ago I wrote about some diamond coated cutting discs for use in a Dremel - they cost about 40c each and will cut through a high speed steel drill with no problems. The battery Dremel model is virtually silent as is the cutting disc when cutting.
Possibly the chain you describe is harder than HSS?
Regards
Denis,
I am in greenfields construction, where molly [molibdieium] as well as tungsten stainless is used, these are much harder forms, and @ those metre rates it is not standard stainless.
Also high speed drills are heat treated carbon, no match for any diamond disc, I can not find INCONEL chain, but have been told via Japan, to give an idea of the cost, 150mm pipe with 6mm wall = $3000 per metre, it is up to five times harder than any form of stainless, and is used in extreme cold and hot enviros.
I will go with the 16mm molly, no standard diamond disc will cut it, and since we will be doing LOTS of off road, it's one of the best ways to protect my $80K van, at least it will appeasethe insurance company, cheers
Hi Dolly,
Thread it thru dual wheels and the independent suspension with a 'master' lock, we had kangaroos trapped on site a few days ago, 'master lock' was 8mm and the largest bulk cutters we could find would not look at this lock, and that was with two guys swinging on the bulk cutters, then tried a sledge hammer, no luck, went and got a genny and diamond cutter grinder.
What gets me is that when you buy a length of chain for security reasons, the salesman seems to cut off what you require with a pair of appropriate bolt cutters. Never gives me that warm fuzzy feeling.
Had a friend have his expensive wheels on a HSV Commodore knocked off. Car on blocks. Whilst high up in a multi storey building talking with his insurance company, he watched as his car (sans wheels) got dragged onto a tilt truck. Car was found but brakes were all smashed.
Has anybody thought of unbolting the coupling hitch?
Then replacing the bolts with long screws and nyloc nuts screwed right up.
(In technical terms a screw has the thread the full length, while a bolt has the thread only part way.)
Unless the thief has a tilt tray then they would have to bring their own coupling hitch. Then spend quite a long time undoing the nuts before they can re-attach the coupling. It would mean that they would not be able to dive in and out quickly.
A tow hitch is not even required if you really want to pinch a van.
A guy I knew was in a marital dispute with his wife and took off with a caravan behind his car. He had shoved the tow bar into the boot and tied it there. Only went a few kms and it did some damage but was effective.
If losing your van is going to cause so much angst, you may be better off selling it, using the money to buy wool and stay home and knit jumpers because you won't enjoy life on the road.
A good lock through the disk brakes.. Slows em down .. Just don't forget you've done it though..
I have enough trouble remembering to lower TV aerial .. Lol
Some blue breatherlizer stickers ? Lol
