Favourite to hold chisel with very very thick glove.!!!
Happy chiselling Phil I.
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Yes, get a £15 angle grinder and you'll never look back. When I think of all the rusted up nuts and exhausts I have labouriously hacksawed in my time, and now with a grinder it takes a few seconds.
Once you have one it is amazing the range of quick jobs they will do.
Just remember that the sparks don't just burn paint - they can also ignite workshop sawdust, petrol, and your clothes. And obviously you will wear wrap-around goggles, even for that last tempting little final cut.
Good luck
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Dead right, Cliff, not about the £15 angle grinder (don't you have any desire for quality amnd decent tool life?) but about clothes catching fire, goggles, etc.
Earlier this year I was cutting out a railway crane roof panel from 3mm steel sheet when I felt a bit more than the usual comfortably warm feeling between the legs. By the time I had realised what had happened, my overalls, trousers and underpants were on fire. I beat the fire out and the result was a large hole between my legs (limited to my clothes, thankfully). A most embarrassing and painful experience which still brings forth smiles and unrepeatably coarse comments from my workmates!
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Dizzy, I'd agree with you about cheap small angle grinders. I bought a cheapie to replace my Bosch which died after five years hard use, and although plenty powerful enough, it is very noisy and the brush housings get too hot to touch after only a few minutes use. When it dies I'll get a decent replacement.
However, at the same time I bought a big 9 inch disc cutter for £35 (from Focus DIY) and this is a marvellous piece of kit. Sure it's cheap, poorly made, and if you put it in a commercial workshop it wouldn't last a day, but for occasional use, cutting large panels of sheet steel, I haven't found anything to touch it. I could never justify spending £100 or more on a decent 9 inch cutter for the amount of use it will get. One of these could be the answer to David M's problem.
Richard Hall
bangernomics.tripod.com
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Dead right, Cliff, not about the £15 angle grinder (don't you have any desire for quality amnd decent tool life?)
Yes and no. I think with tools it's often worth getting a cheap one first, to gain experience, decide whether you really need one, or simply to do just one job.
Then, when it's burnt out (although mine's still working after a year's hard life), you can get a proper one, appreciate it, and look after it.
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