123hotchef
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oh powerfiles too now huh!
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Moose McAlpine
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My 9" Bosch is actually very nice to use. (I just bought another which i think will be just as good.)
But put a 4" cup brush on it and you need to hold on for dear life. Absolutely awful thing, the vibrations could shake your limbs off.
Got 2 of those, 40G and 80G. Only cheap Silverlines but they're really good.
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123hotchef
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ha ha i have a hitachi 9" its great to use just heavy and jumps when u start it up, great for grninding metal road plate even better with a dimond disc on it for stopne
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You need a nice soft start vibration reducing one! So much nicer to use.
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maybe i shall invest in another any suggestions
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Personally i really like Bosch grinders. I have three 5" ones and one 9" with vibration reduction and they're excellent. The 9" is a GWS 24-230 i think which i bought ex-demo or something as it retailed at something silly like £240.
Just bought another but a GWS 22-230 that should land early next week. (£190 from Screwfix.)
I do have a really nice large frame 5" Makita with soft start and vibration reduction which is excellent (might buy another..) although i haven't tried their 9" one. I imagine they'll be just as good though.
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Once you've had multiple grinders and multiple sockets to plug them into, no swapping discs or plugs, you'd never go back to just having one.
7 grinders. That's more like it!
When I did some welding with a friend, I brought my own grinder so we had his for cutting and mine for grinding. So much quicker and more pleasurable to work that way.
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Well you know what you need to do then!
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I’ve got some air grinders too, but they don’t really count as I haven’t got a compressor man enough to run them
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Air grinders are horrendously hungry little things. I have a couple Ingersoll-Rand industrial die grinders and they'll empty my 200L compressor in a couple of seconds. You need a really big industrial compressor (Like a screw-type or Hydrovane.) to keep them fed at full tilt.
Great tools though, huge amount of power in such a compact tool. I'm sure my IR that's ⅔ the size of a coke can is more powerful than my 240v Bosch that's 3 times its size.
Little air pencil die grinders are great too. Can't beat them for cutting out snapped studs in cylinder heads or broken glow plugs.
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Ohh, you just reminded me, I have a pencil air grinder too. Great bit of kit with a good quality carbide burr
That brings me up to 8 grinders.
For a moment there I was beginning to suffer with grinder envy, lol
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I only have 7
I think what we've all learned here is that we all need more grinders.
I'm not sure how many is enough though. Maybe 20 or 25? I'll have to buy some more and when i reach "enough" i'll report back.
You can never have too many tools. We all know that.
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2 x 4.5" Makita orange budget grinders
1 x 5" Aldi variable speed.
I feel like the guy that has to stand really close to the urinal and make sure nobody's watching before he can go.
1 x 5" Aldi variable speed.
I feel like the guy that has to stand really close to the urinal and make sure nobody's watching before he can go.
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Definitely. Of the two 9-inchers, that's the one I reach for every time. The other, hard-start, is used purely for thin slitting discs, as there's not a lot of inertia in them, comparatively.
Then, there is the Lidl ankle-biter, which needs a gearbox bearing or simply set fire to. You use it, lay it on the floor as it winds down and it will shudder and unscrew the disc nut, allowing the still fiercely rotating disc to wander over the floor towards your feet.
