[TheForge] Re: Cutting steel-

[debmiller at fuse.net]

Ditto everyone, I love my Metabos, rarely use my newer Milwaukee, and have a pile with dead Sears and Dewalt grinders.

On the chopsaw thread I have an old Ryobi I love, and burned out two Ridgids from Home Despot. (Some of you longing for one chop saw may wonder why would  someone need TWO chopsaws. Well........as an engineer I am fundamentally lazy, or in other words, always looking for an easier way to do everything. When I had projects where I had to make a bunch of straight cuts and mitre cuts I hated changing back and forth on the saw, so I set one up for mitre cuts and one for straight cuts and save a bunch of time.

I also recently acquired a very early Scotchman ironworker. WHAT A GODSEND!!
WOW!! Clean cuts on angle iron, bar stock, with essentially no deburring. Plus having a punch and mini press brake on it is also wonderful.

Picked it up on eBay really cheap and it still works!! Something like a late 70's vintage.

Ray


> 
> From: Larry Brown <lp.brown at verizon.net>
> Date: 2005/06/17 Fri AM 05:19:27 EDT
> To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Cutting steel-
> 
> I agree with Ries on this, I have been using bosh small 4 1/2 grinders for 
> years, have three, and I use them without mercy. I like ones with a switch 
> on the side rather than having to hold a large switch underneath. When the 
> brushes wear too much it will shut off and I think the new set is like $4 
> and your off and grinding. I picked up a dewalt 5" with the switch on the 
> side but its only been 2 years so I can't give a great rating to it yet. 
> One of the cheap ones lasted me 3 hours into the day when it melted down in 
> my hand, the longest lasting one was the one I never used after I bought 
> the Bosch. I used Sears Industrial ones I bought 20 years ago (I needed 
> them to work on DC at the time) and I still have and use the 7" with only 
> one rebuilding.
> 
> The Chinese ones are for people who use them on Sundays with nice clothes 
> on ;-)
> Larry Brown
> 
> 
> At 05:18 PM 6/16/2005 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday, June 16, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Keporter at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>Makita, who invented them, makes the very best small angle grinders.
> >
> >As a lifelong tool abuser, I gotta disagree with this statement. By and 
> >large Makita tools last about 2 weeks in a real shop environment full of 
> >gorillas like me and the boys that work for me.
> >The only grinders I will let in my shop are Bosch or Metabo. We have one 
> >big 9" Milwaukee, which, while it has lasted a long time, is one of the 
> >most ergonomically misdesigned pieces I own.
> >
> >Bosch and Metabo 4 1/2" ers both go for around 100 bucks, but will last 
> >years, and then are rebuildable. You can drop em off ladders, cut the 
> >cords off with a grinder, saw or dropped 1000lb piece of metal, burn em, 
> >use em for wheel chocks, and they just keep working.
> >
> >Chicago is now a small town in China.
> >
> >ries
> 
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