Another Angle grinder repair

[Flapdisk]

Anyone know where I can get parts for a Kinzo 8E2751 Angle grinder please, It's made in Ede in Holland apparently but google didn't come up with anything, I wondered if it is also sold by another name?
The on/off switch is faulty, I have sprayed switch cleaner in it but it didn't help.

 

[BrokenBiker]

have you opened it up and tested the switch with a meter, or the leads to the switch? I cant find anything either re parts for it so may be a case of retro fitting an existing switch

 

[PTvor]

A google search only turns up one described as new and sold on ebay for £12.75 about a year ago.

As far as I know, whatever their history, Kinzo ended up as a Silverline type operation selling cheap Chinese tat. I doubt that grinder is worth bothering with.

 

[ford34/2]

You can probably retrofit some sort of alternative switch, but consider Aldi have grinders back on with 3 year g/tee for under £20. maybe not to everyones liking but in my own experience the guarantee is cast iron. No quibble no fuss replacement, I think I have 5 angle grinders and an Aldi one is one of them cause its 240V against 110V saves getting the transformer out for the odd job, mine was about 12 quid years ago. Abused beyond belief.

Stan

 

[Flapdisk]

have you opened it up and tested the switch with a meter, or the leads to the switch? I cant find anything either re parts for it so may be a case of retro fitting an existing switch

Yes mate I did, that's when I sprayed the switch cleaner into it, it has a plunger operated by the plastic slide which is what you press on the machine to switch it on,
pushing the plastic button forward to start the machine allows the plunger to come out of the switch unit and nothing happens and nothing measured, but if you give the plunger a flick with the meter probe so it depresses and pops out again quick, then it operates ok, it's as if sliding the operating button forward is not fast enough and the plunger doesn't quite come all the way out.

 

[deVries]

Anyone know where I can get parts for a Kinzo 8E2751 Angle grinder please, It's made in Ede in Holland apparently but google didn't come up with anything, I wondered if it is also sold by another name?
The on/off switch is faulty, I have sprayed switch cleaner in it but it didn't help.

Kinzo was a company that imported Chinese made tools until they went broke. Apparently the name still exists but I wouldn't bother fixing it.

 

[rich r]

As above - I'd pop to Aldi and pick up one of their £20 125mm ones if they still have them in stock (they were in a week ago, so there may be some left, possibly reduced even). Come with spare brushes, are reasonably well made and are quite nice to use despite the price. As with Stan's, mine's had a huge amount of use and not been stored with any kind of care (my Bosch one goes back in it's plastic storage box when not in use, the Aldi one just sits on a shelf getting covered in sawdust, welding sparks and so on). I only bought it so I didn't have to keep swapping discs, but have ended up using it more than the Bosch one because it's just there on the shelf.

 

[owas]

I do the same with supatool (stax trading centers own brand) for around 13 quid, been abusing them so much with constant flap disk grinding and they haven't died yet .
They seem to vibrate ALOT with a wire wheel or grinding disk though, is that just common with all cheapies?

 

[Windy Miller]

I do the same with supatool (stax trading centers own brand) for around 13 quid, been abusing them so much with constant flap disk grinding and they haven't died yet .
They seem to vibrate ALOT with a wire wheel or grinding disk though, is that just common with all cheapies?

Sounds like the wire wheel and grinding disc are running out of true...

 

[Wallace]

I bought a cheapie from Homebase/Argos and out of the box it vibrated to the point where I started to worry about vibration white finger and the disc disintegrating. The thread in the disc retaining nut was cut at an angle so the disc was running ridiculously out of true, changing the nut cured the vibration. After some use and abuse the cheap metal shielded output shaft roller bearing decide it wanted to be centre stage on the noise front so I fitted a fully sealed SKF and it's been good as gold since.

 

[Flapdisk]

Hi guys, I took it apart and removed the switch assembly, there were some plastic tabs on it which I could slip a small screwdriver under to get it apart. Inside were two sets of contacts and a spring mechanism to flip them from one position to the other. I cleaned the contacts and removed some plastic molding protuberances which seemed to be in the way of the movement and put it all back together, works fine now.