just taken delivery of a 9" angle grinder and loads of metal blades - absolutely fantastic bit of kit - it's earnt its money back by taking 10 mins o slice thru and cut to required the sierra rear beam/diff carrier - i love it - best 25 quid i ever spent!!!!!!!!!

and got more screwfix goodies coming tomorrow - yum

Graceland,

Welcome to ownership of "The Tool" you will find it most rewarding.

May I recommend that you also invest in a cup wire brush (bosch please, not halfords rubbish). As I'm sure others will testify it makes cleaning scuzzy donor parts a dream.

Cheers

Nick

I'm afraid electrolysis has all but made the 'tool' redundant in the de-rusting catagory.

Mick

Erm, you need to remove all the crude of it first before electrolisis can be done.
All the oil and flaking paint needs to come off.

i've had "the tool" for the last 5 years - a bosch 750 watt jobby, 4.5" disk size, but it died cutting the floorsheet out - oops.

the 9" seemed the way to go, since i abuse so many things with it.

cant wait till tomorra - more goodies

I have a 9 incher which is an evil bit of kit - great for heavy jobs.

Im on my 4th cheapo 115mm grinder. Id recommend you still have a small one, cos its more controllable in small spaces and can be used one handed.

that seems like a lot of innuendo, but its not meant to be!

atb

steve

If you're cutting sheet with the 115mm grinder use thin blades for stainless. They cut quicker and don't cause as much drag on the motor so it doesn't burn out, also don't take as much metal away. I got some just under 1mm thick from a local steel merchant.

yours, Pete.

i would only have a bosch grinder, if not available then a makita. weve had a bosch 9" at work and it has lasted a good 4 years with a huge amount of abuse, cutting steel and concrete day in and day out, brilliant machine for only 70 quid. so recently when i came to remove a wall in my house thats what i bought, in a diy environment it should last forever!

my 4.5" bosch blue (industrial one) lased only 5 years - then smoked to death. but it had seen some serious abuse. hehe

Along with 8 other people, I polished the stainless mullions which make up the roof of Canary Wharf, we used 4.5" Makita grinders with flap wheels attached. We changed bruses every 4 hours and blew the grinders, on average, every 3 days. That was continuous use, 24 hours per day (split shifts).

I can well recomment the screwfix grinders. Mounted in a stand to make the cutting precise, I cut all the chassis tubes & the brackets from my capri axle and I'm still on my first disk!!!!

I love it, it cuts the 16SWG steel like butter, very impressed.

Simon

Spyderman

Must be doing something wrong

I just leave it in for a few days and the crud and paint flake off with the rust.

Mick

used the 9 incher to devour 6mm chequer plate to make my gearbox mount and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it went thru it like a knife thru warm butter

i love it