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Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:00:37 -0400
Reply-To:   David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:   David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:   Re: Smaller Angle Grinder?
Comments:   To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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At 04:17 PM 3/26/2009, neil N wrote: >Any recomends on specific brand and model of grinder that will be >small enough to fit into more cramped quarters? I know I need a 4.5" >(or smaller?) and likely a Makita from what I've read. If there's a

I had a 4" Makita, cost around $70 IIRC ten years ago. Liked it a lot. Got stolen. Have a 4.5" Milwaukee now, like it too, cost around $110 five years ago.

4" is handier, 4.5" stronger and has a great deal more usable abrasive in a disk. Without doing the numbers, could be twice as much material for nowhere near twice the price.

For the uninitiated, all species of angle grinders will throw great big fat sparks fifteen feet, that will instantly make little craters in any glass they land on. The molten metal bonds to the glass, then shrinks as it cools and *ping"

-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"


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