4" Grinders

[La Bestia]

Post up a review on the grinders you have and use. I currently have 3 of the Dewalt 9 amp grinders in the garage. 1 has a wire wheel, 1 is strictly used with flap discs and the other switches between cutoff and standard grinding wheels. These puppies have been worked and always impress. You can lean on them pretty hard and it will keep chugging along. I never even put the side handle on mine, just feels like an awkward position. Depending on the process I prefer both hands placed somewhere on the body of the grinder. The holes on the front are the exhaust for any heat built up in the motor and if you're going pretty good on it for a while it will certainly get warm but not too bad really. I would highly recommend them but have little experience with anything else at this point.

I have read some favorable reviews of the cheap Skil grinder they sell at walmart so I may get one and put it up next to the dewalt and see if the extra $60 is worth it.

 

[davbell22602]

I thought about buying one of the Kawasaki ones from Tractor Supply.

 

[PenguinLTZ]

Milwaukee. I am on my 3rd, and that is serious abuse!. True workhorses. Our shops have tried them all, and we get the best life out of the Milwaukee.

 

[La Bestia]

Milwaukee. I am on my 3rd, and that is serious abuse!. True workhorses. Our shops have tried them all, and we get the best life out of the Milwaukee.

Good to know I will have to give one a go at some point. I apparently have something against in state tools.

 

[1LOW4X4]

Just stay away from the cheap stuff. I bought a bottom dollar craftsman and it fell apart, esp after I got pissed and threw it by the cord across the yard when it started messing up.

 

[Bigredmariner]

Just stay away from the cheap stuff. I bought a bottom dollar craftsman and it fell apart, esp after I got pissed and threw it by the cord across the yard when it started messing up.

That's usually how my cheap ones end up. Chunked across the shop into the garbage.

Milwaukee power tools are fantastic. They are expensive but you all know the saying " You get what you pay for". We use Milwaukee power tools pretty much on the ships and they really stand up to the abuse.

 

[1LOW4X4]

Hell yeah I have a Milwaukee bandsaw and a 1/2" drill (electric) that will break your wrist. Love that brand.

 

[PenguinLTZ]

Hell yeah I have a Milwaukee bandsaw and a 1/2" drill (electric) that will break your wrist. Love that brand.

Is it the Porta-Band? I love that thing!

 

[La Bestia]

We use predominantly Dewalt tools at work with a few Milwaukee's thrown in for good measure. I want to do a head to head comparison someday but we don't have the same tools in each brand, for Milwaukee we have porta bands, die grinders and a few old old old screw guns. Dewalt is all of our cordless tools (really not many, batteries don't have the juice for Iron work), grinders 4 & 9", and more old old screw guns but I don't think you can make an objective comparison of tools that have been rebuilt 3 times.

 

[1LOW4X4]

Yeah is a port-a-band. Being an electrician I have mastered the use of that thing cutting conduit and strut and stuff. You'd be surprised the uses you can find for that thing at the house....