The angle grinder is a very useful thing, dangerous as hell in the wrong hands, but super-useful.
I'm a tool-guy...Have many and one of them is an angle grinder. Mine is corded but a cordless is on the cards soon, the technology has advanced so far that they are a legitimate option now...Certainly for home handyman use which is what I'd be using it for.
Interesting that it was invented in 1954...I would have thought earlier...It's interesting though, that so many inventions come from the need to do a thing...So many just sort of happen by mistake but many inventions are borne of necessity to do a thing. The angle grinder is one I'd say. A most useful tool and invention.
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No DIY'er am I. I envy the skill, the mastery of tools and the ability and foresight to create a thing that initially only exists in the mind, but nope, I am a consumer of tradesmen ((that sounded massively weird, not just me, right???))
It's good to know one's limitations. I'm pretty good at this stuff but not that good that I don't have to stand back and say, really, you want to do that? And then think it through. I can use tools though, and often do.
Sometimes the cable can be annoying, there are cut positions that the cable does not allow, a wireless would be the solution, I think that all of us who use this tool should have a
There are many tasks at home that require the use of a grinder, it is undoubtedly very useful
I think it was very well designed to serve multiple purposes with disc changes
that you enjoy the rest of the afternoon very much
I often run the power cord up and over my shoulder to keep it out the way, or sometimes up over something else above me...Keeps it from dangling.
It is a danger to be maneuvering the cable when the tool is turned on, so accidents happen, once the cable is hooked with the wooden cutting disc, luckily the circuit breaker cut the electrical power