Huge wrote:

Instruction manuals are full of OTT safety advice, but it would take a very
brave - or stupid man to fit a saw blade to an angle grinder.

QVC were recently selling an accessory for angle grinders. It let you
cut and sculpt wood. It was a circular blade with a chain saw chain
wrapped around it.

My (wood worker) father used to use a tool to sculpt the seats of Windsor
chairs which consisted of a hemispherical mount with three curved blades
attached (like lines of longitude) which attached to an angle grinder.

All these tools have been tested either by manufacturers aware of the
legal implications of making dangerous ones, or by years of experience
and led by the needs of skilled craftsmen.

There's a mania for modular, snap-it-on, adapt-it-to-another-function
tools, and the idea that anything can be attached to any other thing to
increase usefulness - I think that's dangerous.

"I saw Lon Cheney walking with the Queen."

Chaney, but yeah.

Daniele