Brad93
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Fein now do a brushless grinder excellent for applications like this. Immensely powerful and slim in the hand.
About £340 though!
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About £340 though!
Onoff
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It was either a small Kango or Hilti grinder (red one) I bought some years back. Killed it virtually out of the box raking out old lime mortar between bricks. Literally it's first outing. Think a dust cloud ignited inside or something.
Brad93
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My mates hilti grinder looks like a brick it's caked in that much brick dust, still works.
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Wolf grinderette. That takes me back I remember my dad buying one when they first came out. It had a white or light grey body with a blue stripe.
Brad mentioned Fein, I had one of their oscillating multi tools, lightly used but a handy thing to have, one day the capacitor exploded as i was using it. Out of warranty so expensive to fix, It did it again so i binned it. Dad had one the same & didnt use it so passed it on to me. A couple of years later that one blew up the same way but gave me an electric shock when it did it. That one went in the bin. I wouldnt buy Fein now after that.
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No i probably wouldn't buy fein again.
My die grinder the bearings seem to have failed or something has managed to bend in normal use (bet it's got less that 6-10 hours use in its lifetime). Vibration is crazy.
The angle grinder is also incredibly noisy and has some vibration.
powerful motors for sure, but something lets them down.
Both sent back under warranty, both times told nothing is wrong with the tool and they've been sent back the same
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I buy the parkside ones when I see them. Although they are undoubtedly cheap **ite, the speed control is a nice touch and they have a pretty much no quibble 3 year warranty.
The longest lasting 4.5" grinder I ever had was a "challenge extreme" one from argos. It lasted over 10 years of hacking at cars and other general welding work. Bought the same model again and that one died pretty fast. Seems to be luck of the draw to some extent. I have noticed that for the first few months the parkside gearboxes get hot so I think they have a kind of running in period where it's best not to let it get too hot, they can then take some abuse.
The longest lasting 4.5" grinder I ever had was a "challenge extreme" one from argos. It lasted over 10 years of hacking at cars and other general welding work. Bought the same model again and that one died pretty fast. Seems to be luck of the draw to some extent. I have noticed that for the first few months the parkside gearboxes get hot so I think they have a kind of running in period where it's best not to let it get too hot, they can then take some abuse.
Expensive to run. Very air hungry
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Yes, I am well aware of that.
However the OP has gone thru how many grinders ?
Do you have something positive to actually help the OP and his problem ?
Yes buy 10 more cheap grinders
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There you have it folks, the supreme answer, the peanut gallery has spoken......
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1954 the first angle grinder.
The high-speed angle grinder was invented in 1954[6] by German company Ackermann + Schmitt (FLEX-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH) in Steinheim an der Murr.[7] Owing to this, in German, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Latvian, an angle grinder is colloquially called just a "flex", in Italy and in Spanish-speaking countries it is sometimes called "flexible". In Switzerland it is known as "Perles" from a popular brand of cutting tools. In Polish it is also known as "kątówka"[8] or "gumówka"[9] (= the rubber thing), which refers to the elasticity of certain types of disks. However they are never made out of true rubber due to fire hazard. In Russian, it is known as "болгарка" ("bolgarka")[10] (literally "Bulgarian" of the feminine gender), since the first angle grinders in the USSR were Bulgarian made.[11]
History
[edit]The high-speed angle grinder was invented in 1954[6] by German company Ackermann + Schmitt (FLEX-Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH) in Steinheim an der Murr.[7] Owing to this, in German, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Latvian, an angle grinder is colloquially called just a "flex", in Italy and in Spanish-speaking countries it is sometimes called "flexible". In Switzerland it is known as "Perles" from a popular brand of cutting tools. In Polish it is also known as "kątówka"[8] or "gumówka"[9] (= the rubber thing), which refers to the elasticity of certain types of disks. However they are never made out of true rubber due to fire hazard. In Russian, it is known as "болгарка" ("bolgarka")[10] (literally "Bulgarian" of the feminine gender), since the first angle grinders in the USSR were Bulgarian made.[11]
Onoff
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Me too, sort of grey blue?
I have a 4 1/2" grinder bought from Makro years back when they were pedalling loads of Nu-Tool. This one however is labelled "BUDGET". Vibrates a good bit more than my favourite Bosch but tbh it's done loads of graft.
The blade stop button thing failed years ago but it keeps going.
Saying that I've loads of "under a tenner" corded and cordless Nu-Tool stuff from Makro, bought on a "rude not to" whim and it mostly all died after one use/charge.
The grinder is still going mind and a circular saw I just use to cut cement board with the original blade.
A pal who is a little rough on the grinders has managed to brake two of the makita ones each in less than one year.
The one dewalt lasted just under a year and I think it's replacement has lasted about one and a half years so far, although I havent seen it in a while so maybe it has died also..
Stu
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He sounds allot like the "Nursing home cat" ...I would not stand near him.....
