MaxD wrote:
On 3/9/2013 3:46 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Another good deal post...

I picked up another HF 4 1/2" angle grinder at the tent sale. $10.00.
Between my son and I we have a few of this particular model,
and they just don't seem to die. I also have a couple of the next
model up, and I have put them through pure hell doing body work,
metal fab, etc. They just keep working. As cheap as they are, if
they do go tits up, it's cheap to replace them. With more than one
on hand, I'm not even really inconvenienced if one pukes.

An angle grinder isn't a very mystical tool - it just goes round and
round, and occaisionally bites your finger a bit. You just can't go
wrong with these. Sometimes it pays to have a backup on hand with
cheap tools. Hell - my old SnapOn grinder left me wishing I had a
backup on hand, so it's not just true of cheap tools.

The one I picked up the other day was to put my wire cup on. I have
one with a grinding wheel, one with a cut-off wheel, and this one
with the wire cup on it. Saves having to change over. I use my
cut-off tool much more than I use my angle grinder with the cut-off
wheel, but when I do want the 4 1/2" dude, it's there and ready to
go. Cheap makes it easier to justify buying a-nother.


Do you use the HF abrasive wheels? If so, how well do they perform?

Yes I do. The 4" and 4 1/2" grinder wheels work very well. The 3" cutoff
wheels work very well also. The 4" and 4 1/2" cutoff wheels wear very
quickly, but they do cut well - you will just go through them faster than
you will the 3" wheels. If I had to work without them, and simply resort to
my 3" cutoff tool, it would not kill me.

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-Mike-