"John McGaw" wrote in message
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Toller wrote:
I have never used anything but grinding (what, blades, inserts, disks?)
in my Makita 4.5" angle grinder, but today I need a cutting disk. It
is much thinner, so it just spins. The retaining nut is flat on one side
and flanged on the other. If I turn it around so the flat side is down,
rather than the flanged side down, it seems to work okay.
But I don't have the instructions, so I don't know if this is actually
proper.
Any catastrophe happen if I use it like this? If so, how do I mount the
cutting disk?
Probably the safest thing to do, lacking the paper manual, is to go to
Makita's website's "Service" section and look at the online manual. It
seems likely to me that any method of attachment which keeps the blade
centered and can be locked down tight would probably work well enough but
since the manual is only a few clicks away why not be sure?
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Great suggestion; isn't the internet incredible!
It says my idea is correct, but also says to use a guard that covers the
bottom of the disk.
As long as I have the bottom pointed away from me, that shouldn't be
critical, should it?