[TheForge] Belt sander recommendations/ now grinder

[Dan Brewer]

I guess I have had extraordinary good luck with my tools from Harbor freight
tools.  I have a drill that I got from them for better than 20 years now.
My grinder is going on five years.  I have three of them.  I bought a homier
grinder and it lasted almost 5 min before I let the smoke out.  I have a 4
inch Makita that is nice except that it has a breaker on it that I keep
popping.  A question I have is , Were you using the grinder for a continues
1 1/2 hours?  If so I know of only a few tools that will stand up to that
type of use.  

Dan in Auburn

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Larry Brown
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Belt sander recommendations/ now grinder


The last two HF grinders I had, one lasted a weekend and the other (I 
bought hoping the first one was defective) went on fire while I was using 
it after about 1 1/2 hours. It made for an interesting morning. Bought a 
Bosch, after two years I bought another Bosch just to have around keeping 
the other company (Really to cut down on wheel changes)
The only time the Bosch stops is when you wear the brushes down to a 
certain extent and this little plunger pops out shutting it off. $6 for new 
brushes and I'm off for a few new years. Different people different luck? 
I'm hard on my tools and I appreciate it when they laugh at me..
L Brown

At 06:27 PM 2/26/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>  > Go get three harbor freight 4 1/2 inch grinders.  They are on sale
> > for 19 dollars all the time.
>
>I've had very mixed results with HF tools.  I've used a bunch of the 4 
>1/2" grinders as well as drills in my teen armor classes (I tried letting 
>them (ab)use my good tools, never again!)
>Some lasted just fine, others fried in a single class.  Granted, they were 
>getting rough treatment!  The thing is, the quality control is about 
>non-existent.
>
>--Justin
>
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