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Cutting through Fibreglass

Lil' Smiler · 2011-04-27 10:51:45

Hi All, Am part of a gymnastics club, we recently order 2 new bars as some sections of our old ones were damaged. I'm just wondering would it be easy to cut through the bars - made of fibreglass with a wood covering to cut them to size for something else we'd like to make? So the bars look like the below We'd like to make…

27-04-2011 11:51am

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Lil' Smiler

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Hi All,

Am part of a gymnastics club, we recently order 2 new bars as some sections of our old ones were damaged. I'm just wondering would it be easy to cut through the bars - made of fibreglass with a wood covering to cut them to size for something else we'd like to make?

So the bars look like the below

We'd like to make these small floor bars

So, is fibreglass easy to cut through? If so, what would be needed to cut through it?

Thanks a million

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#2 27-04-2011 12:37pm

Carlow52

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fine toothed hacksaw should do or if loads put a metal blade in a jigsaw at slow speed

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