On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:23:57 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

"Tegger" wrote in message
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"HeyBub" wrote in
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DerbyDad03 wrote:

Use this...

http://www.harborfreight.com/power-t...s/heavy-duty-4
-1-2-half-inch-angle-grinder-91223.html

with this...

http://www.harborfreight.com/7-piece...kit-90976.html

$30 and a new tool.

(or spend more if you want a quality angle grinder.)

Always wear eye protection - and even face protection - when using a
rotating wire brush. Those little filaments of steel sometimes come
loose and fly through the air like a harpoon.






The admonition to use eye-protection is a wise one.

A guy I knew years ago was using a chisel without wearing goggles. He
ended
up with a chip in his eye and had to go to emergency.

When removing the chip, the guy had to be AWAKE, EYES OPEN. The doctor
said, "Whatever you do, don't move your eyes or blink". So my friend was
forced to watch as the doctor dug around in the white of his eye to remove
the chip.

Can you imagine? Can you?

He was lucky. For a lot of people, a grinder was the last thing they would
ever see with that eye. The chips fly off faster than the eye can blink.

I had a friend who used a framing hammer on cut masonry nails, sans eye
protection. After which, he had ten similar operations over the next ten days
to put his eye back together. The doctor was among the best and he didn't
lose the eye but it was a close one.