So I use 2 types of rings when building engines, "tool steel" (top ring) and a type of "iron" (grey?) for the second ring.
For Iron I can just use a normal file to clean up the edges when filing the rings, but tool steel would just laugh at a file. The machine shop recommended a stone based tool to smooth the top ring.
What do you guys recommend?
I'm 45 getting back into skating after 30ish years away. I was extremely surprised to see how much the industry had changed, and not for the better. There was very little in the way of choices and to make things worse, apparently there's only a couple companies actually manufacturing, the rest are just renames/rebranding? I didn't see much of anything designed for "freestyle" like we used to use on half pipes. I did see that 5 wheel speed skates have been replaced by 3 wheel? Extremely counterintuitive! A friend used to play semi-pro ice hockey and talked me into hockey skates (Mission Inhaler) instead.
I was mostly looking for the exercise aspect (I'm too old for half pipes and grinding rails, lol) so I was open to the idea of casual roller hockey (a close by public park has a ring), vs cruising around on speed skates. But summer is too hot for outdoor and there's only a wood floor indoor skating rink and ice rinks in my area.
Would i be better served changing my stock Mission wheels/bearings, for indoor wood floors or buying something in the 3 wheel speed skate territory?
Secondly, these hockey skates lace bite me really bad, I'm a size 13-14 shoe usually, but I have really skinny feet, so I have to pull the laces really tight or my feet just "float" badly with no support. I really struggle to find anything that fits well like the old school rachet buckles of my childhood.