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So after tested my metabo for about 6 months, i can review it.
So a little introducion...
This 5" angle grinder have different good features but also bad ones
Good
-S-matic meccanical safety cluch
This reduce kickback risk but doesn't stop it totaly.
I was cutting through alluminium, and weel jam and broke, the grinder stay in my hands but move my arms for about a feet and throw away the pieces
But i think that If i was in a better position this didn't happened
-Proctection guard
This is wide and don't disturb even using flap disc, normaly this eat a little bit the guard.
It's also locked meccanically so can't move i you not unlock it.
This prevent that rotate when you break the disc, or when this jams somewhere.
For this reason i try allways to touch whit the guard the workpiece, so if jams the guard stops the rotation and the safety cluch works in less time and better
It's also not need any tool to position this
-Medium range power
It's not do to work all the day unstopable but if you need to work hard it works
It have 1250 watt so is not a toy whit less than 600watt.
But it's not to big to be used whit an hand only as i think is the wep15-125 Quick or a bosch gws 17-125 cie
-May mount dust protection filtrer
I bought the two one
One for general dusts red
An a second for smaller dust Black
-motor
It's designed to have more torque, dust proctection and cooling.
This i think also because the gears are 4 to 1, even than 3 to 1
So if it have 10000 rpm on the weel it have 40000 on the rotor
So more rpm, more fresch air that pass through rotor and stator, and also more air that hit the gearbox, cooling also this.
It's totaly covered by proctection materials
-German designed, German made, German materials
-Quick nut
You only need to click the spindle lock to release the nut and change the weel
I had got problems whit this, i took my grinder back to Germany to change the spindle lock.
You must wait that motor doesn't wistle anymore before click the spindle lock, or this may break itself or the gearbox.
-Rear air intake
This is good for the handling
-Electronics
Soft start and antirestart
Bads
-It's little bit big...
The gearbox it's tall, and may give problems in close spaces
-The guard, when you are cutting this shot on you the sparks.
So normaly sparks hit the guard and go toward you
In this, sparks hit guard and this shot you in face, at the half of the guard thees go out.
-Spindle lock the problem is that you can't fell the perfect moment
-Filtrer
They may obstacle the air flow and the cooling
This is a little review by my experience whit him, but i may be not lucky
A link to the original technic features (METABO OFFICIAL WEBSITE)
https://www.metabo.com/it/it/w-12-125-quick-600398500-smerigliatrici-angolari.html
I think you must switch from italian to english
For my potho we must wait tomorrow because i can't go in "garage" now
Im sorry for this
Sorry also for my english
So a little introducion...
This 5" angle grinder have different good features but also bad ones
Good
-S-matic meccanical safety cluch
This reduce kickback risk but doesn't stop it totaly.
I was cutting through alluminium, and weel jam and broke, the grinder stay in my hands but move my arms for about a feet and throw away the pieces
But i think that If i was in a better position this didn't happened
-Proctection guard
This is wide and don't disturb even using flap disc, normaly this eat a little bit the guard.
It's also locked meccanically so can't move i you not unlock it.
This prevent that rotate when you break the disc, or when this jams somewhere.
For this reason i try allways to touch whit the guard the workpiece, so if jams the guard stops the rotation and the safety cluch works in less time and better
It's also not need any tool to position this
-Medium range power
It's not do to work all the day unstopable but if you need to work hard it works
It have 1250 watt so is not a toy whit less than 600watt.
But it's not to big to be used whit an hand only as i think is the wep15-125 Quick or a bosch gws 17-125 cie
-May mount dust protection filtrer
I bought the two one
One for general dusts red
An a second for smaller dust Black
-motor
It's designed to have more torque, dust proctection and cooling.
This i think also because the gears are 4 to 1, even than 3 to 1
So if it have 10000 rpm on the weel it have 40000 on the rotor
So more rpm, more fresch air that pass through rotor and stator, and also more air that hit the gearbox, cooling also this.
It's totaly covered by proctection materials
-German designed, German made, German materials
-Quick nut
You only need to click the spindle lock to release the nut and change the weel
I had got problems whit this, i took my grinder back to Germany to change the spindle lock.
You must wait that motor doesn't wistle anymore before click the spindle lock, or this may break itself or the gearbox.
-Rear air intake
This is good for the handling
-Electronics
Soft start and antirestart
Bads
-It's little bit big...
The gearbox it's tall, and may give problems in close spaces
-The guard, when you are cutting this shot on you the sparks.
So normaly sparks hit the guard and go toward you
In this, sparks hit guard and this shot you in face, at the half of the guard thees go out.
-Spindle lock the problem is that you can't fell the perfect moment
-Filtrer
They may obstacle the air flow and the cooling
This is a little review by my experience whit him, but i may be not lucky
A link to the original technic features (METABO OFFICIAL WEBSITE)
https://www.metabo.com/it/it/w-12-125-quick-600398500-smerigliatrici-angolari.html
I think you must switch from italian to english
For my potho we must wait tomorrow because i can't go in "garage" now
Im sorry for this
Sorry also for my english