A gift for your angle grinder

[Arc weld]

With something like that you're screwed from both ends. Where do keep the grinding wheel and/or backing plate that needs the nut?

 

[jaotguy]

most men wear an apron ( around the BBQ ) .. even if you can't spring for a leather one , they make cloth ones for roofers ...

and they still make shirts with pockets and almost everyone has ears to hold pencils ( and glasses )

ahem ... everyone needs a bigger shop , more tools to fill it , and a bigger shop .... wait ! I see a pattern here ...

 

[downsizingnow48]

I have an old canvas tool bag, throw the grinders and everything that goes with them in that. Can't lose track of anything. I've never used an angle grinder without the side handle.

 

[Reverser]

That's a fantastic idea there. I seem to lose things to my grinder as well.

Though what I really lose the most is my wrench to my grinder and have had to use a pair of channel locks to change the disk. Then as I set the channel locks down on the work bench I spot my grinder wrench. lol

Chad

You and me both. Although I don't have as much trouble losing wrenches as I used to. I've bought several of those cheap $10 Harbor Freight grinders to fit every type of brush, cut-off wheel, flap disk, etc., that I use. So usually I'll find one of the wrenches when I need one. :dance1:

 

[Reverser]

Yeah but I just don't look good in my wife's apron and I haven't pulled the trigger on a man's apron. Soon I will see the light though.

:laughing: Yeah, it's hard keeping that macho look in front of the neighbors while wearing the wife's frilly apron. :laughing:

They're so darn handy though, and always clean when you need to grab one.

 

[Sodo]

I've bought several of those cheap $10 Harbor Freight grinders to fit every type of brush, cut-off wheel, flap disk, etc., that I use.

I've thought of that too, but to many grinders and I'd tangle all the cords. I'm pretty used to the convenience of an 18V DeWalt too.
I did buy a hF angle grinder once in lieu of lending out my milwaukie. It's still working fine.

 

[rswyan]

I prefer to keep my grinder fittings in a top drawer of my tool box right next to the wrenches needed to take them off. Having the washer/nut is of no use without a wrench, so both stay together in the drawer so they are easy to find. I think with vibration of grinding the nut would likely find it way off the bolt and be lost anyway unless it is tightened with the wrench. JMO
NOTE: I almost always use the handle on my grinders unless I cant get it into a tight spot with it on. MUCH SAFER that way. Even 4" grinders have a pretty big kickback when the blade/brush binds.

I rarely - if ever - use a wrench to change between grinding disc, flap disc, and wire wheel (1/8" and 1/16" cut-off discs being the exception) ...

All of the aforementioned implements of destruction are kept hanging on peg board, over the workbench (except for boxes of grinding discs which are kept in a cabinet "supplies" drawer)

I'm with ya on the handles tho' ...

 

[Sodo]

I rarely - if ever - use a wrench to change between grinding disc, flap disc, and wire wheel (1/8" and 1/16" cut-off discs being the exception) ...

My Milwaukie is a 3-holer (holes for handles) only the 'vertical' hole is plugged up. But I never use the handle on a 4 1/2", they just get in the way.

The only time I use the wrench is when somebody borrows my grinder, and tightens it with the wrench then I need it to loosen it - to get back on the hand-tight program.

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm buying $15 HF grinders to solve the elusive wrench problem.

 

[blueriver]

Dedicated drawer for those parts ... Another solution is the wheels and wire with the built in nut.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Dedicated drawer for those parts ... Another solution is the wheels and wire with the built in nut.

That is all I use for grinding wheels. Cut off disc however have to have those washer/nut combo. Since I keep one grinder with cut off wheel on, one with brush, one with 1/8" grinder blade and one with a tiger paw (sanding pad), I only need to change when the wheel wears out. Of all them, only the 1/16" cut off disc normally requires a special wrench as the others all have the 5/8" nut built on.

 

[downsizingnow48]

I keep 3 grinders, one with grinding wheel, one with wire brush, one with stripping disc. All have the built in nut. Rarely change other than to put on a new wheel. Recently one of my old beat up grinders broke, and another walked off, and the third was on its last legs. So took the opportunity to replace all three with $59 Bosch grinders. The biggest benefit is having the on-off button in the same place for any operation.

 

[k0ua]

I have a dedicated drawer with homemade dividers for the small parts. Yes, that project is crying out for at least TIG tackup, I might have welded it with some 3/32 though. . I also started wearing a leather apron, just to many of those little wire brush pieces in my belly.

 

[tommygun]

good idea. i sometimes put them in my pocket.my wife finds them in the washer.

 

[MossRoad]

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