"Mike Fields" wrote in message
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Greetings all -- I have a couple of the 4-1/2 inch grinders (which
I love) and was wondering from a cost point of view which people
preferred - the sanding disc or the flapper discs for cleaning up the
metal/welds and all the other usual stuff you do with those grinders
( and which works better in general ). I was sort of leaning in the
direction of the flapper discs, but was interested in what others
had to say.

Second part of this is where in the US is a good place to
get the discs and which brand seems to give the best "grind for the
buck" as it were ? What have people been happy with? (I hate
those that you spin up and 1/2 the abrasive flys off before you
even start work ;-) )

I was thinking of ordering a bunch and figured this bunch would
have the most experience.

Thanks for the feedback


I haven't used a lot of them, but I noticed that the cheaper they are, the
faster they fly apart. I guess that I can say that all I have used are
Makita and HF. The HF wore out very quickly. The Makita lasted a lot
longer.

A lot has to do with what you are doing with them, too, and how you load
them. That is, how you press on the metal, and how hard, and what angle,
how much metal you want to take off, and all that.

I will be following this thread, as it is time to go get some, and I want to
get a decent deal.

Steve