Abrasives
Cutting discs, grinding discs, flap discs and wire brushes — the highest-turnover line on a fabrication account, stocked in the sizes that move.
Abrasives are consumed faster than anything else in a workshop and are almost always ordered in a hurry. The range is deliberately narrow and deep: the common diameters and thicknesses held in quantity, rather than a long tail that is always on back order.
Bulldog Abrasives covers cutting, grinding and finishing across steel and stainless work, with surface preparation and brushing to close out the job before coating.
Pferd sits above it for the work that justifies a premium wheel — German-made cutting and grinding wheels, flap discs, engineers files, burrs and brushes, specified where cut rate and disc life are measured rather than assumed. On a high-consumption account the two ranges are usually run together: Bulldog on volume, Pferd where the labour cost of a slow disc outweighs the price of a fast one.
Also known as: Cutting discs · Grinding discs · Flap discs · Abrasives supplier
- Duty
- Steel & stainless
- Brands
- Bulldog · Pferd
- Order pattern
- Bulk & repeat
Brands stocked
Cutting & grinding
- Cutting discs across the common diameters and thicknesses
- Grinding discs for steel and stainless
- Depressed centre wheels
- Pferd premium cutting and grinding wheels
Finishing
- Flap discs by grit
- Sanding and fibre discs
- Pferd mounted points and carbide burrs
- Engineers files and rasps
- Surface preparation before coating
Brushes
- Wire wheels
- Cup brushes
- Hand brushes
- Pferd technical brushes
Supplied across South Africa & Zambia
Abrasives is supplied from the Nelspruit head office and warehouse into South Africa and the southern territories, and through the Kitwe branch into Zambia, the Copperbelt and the southern DRC corridor. Johannesburg holds stock for Gauteng and Solwezi serves the North-Western province mines.
Abrasives — questions
- 01Which disc should I use on stainless steel?
- A disc specified as iron-, sulphur- and chlorine-free, so the weld and the parent material are not contaminated. Using a mild-steel disc on stainless is a common cause of rust bloom on finished work.
- 02How do I stop discs wearing out so quickly?
- Usually by matching the disc to the material and the machine speed rather than buying a thicker one. Send the material, the operation and the tool speed with the enquiry and we will specify against it.