When using hard discs or cutting discs, the guard directs broken parts away from you, it's essential you use it.
Fibre discs for surface finishing are another matter, and can be used without a guard.
Angle Grinder disc shatter possible?
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When using hard discs or cutting discs, the guard directs broken parts away from you, it's essential you use it.
Fibre discs for surface finishing are another matter, and can be used without a guard.
Its actually back breaking work, grinding for long periods of time.
Like Burnerman we would be stuffed without ours and use it daily. We often have to cut large numbers of bricks and blocks when coursing up to things like floor beams, joists and roof plate etc.
When using one daily you soon realise the limitations of such a machine.
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Even if you were naked it would be unlikely.
Meant to be ironic!
I tend to get a bit irritable about 'grow a pair' / 'man-up' type comments - all too often they are in response to somebody having concerns about what they are doing and the macho response has a nasty habit of leading to accidents.
Seen far to many inexperienced workers to nervous to ask for help and hurting themselves as a result.
Like everything in life, there are risks but the responsible thing to do is eliminate as many of the risks as possible and if you can't then at least minimise them.
Nothing wrong with angle grinders / disc cutters / chain saws / ladders / scaffold towers / cherry pickers / excavators / shotguns
Use them properly and they do the job, use them badly and they bite
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Just like to add, nothing manly about not fearing a potentialy dangerous tool.
Just to add my cousin many years back using an angle grinder didnt use 'girly goggles', a metal splinter pinged off his work and pierced his eye, he ended up needing a new lense fitted in his eye. He now has one eye like a cateye. And believe me hes not happy about it.
Ive always used grinders big n small, although most of my cutting work on stone i use a steel diamond turbo style disc, i dont like fibre discs. Never once had an incident but this is good to remind me to respect these machines.
Always be firm, a good stance, be confident, never push hard on the disc, take small amounts off. Dont use the side of a blade on fibre cutting discs.
When cutting always push the cutt against the direction of the blade's revolution. Ie if youre standing over your work and the blade is kicking out debris front to back start 'upstream or the top of the line' and work back towards you. Otherwise the blade can kick and run back easier and youre already moving that direction.
Whoever commented on using the side of the blade to debur should be careful also.
This is a wakeup call for me as i normally use just my glasses as eye protection. Going to buy some full goggles from screwfix today. New eye lenses £3000+ each (if they can be fixed) or new goggles say a tenner.
Hmm
Someone mentioned check the collars?
Just to add my cousin many years back using an angle grinder didnt use 'girly goggles', a metal splinter pinged off his work and pierced his eye, he ended up needing a new lense fitted in his eye. He now has one eye like a cateye. And believe me hes not happy about it.
Ive always used grinders big n small, although most of my cutting work on stone i use a steel diamond turbo style disc, i dont like fibre discs. Never once had an incident but this is good to remind me to respect these machines.
Always be firm, a good stance, be confident, never push hard on the disc, take small amounts off. Dont use the side of a blade on fibre cutting discs.
When cutting always push the cutt against the direction of the blade's revolution. Ie if youre standing over your work and the blade is kicking out debris front to back start 'upstream or the top of the line' and work back towards you. Otherwise the blade can kick and run back easier and youre already moving that direction.
Whoever commented on using the side of the blade to debur should be careful also.
This is a wakeup call for me as i normally use just my glasses as eye protection. Going to buy some full goggles from screwfix today. New eye lenses £3000+ each (if they can be fixed) or new goggles say a tenner.
Hmm
Someone mentioned check the collars?
This was me, me, me.
The first time I did it and the blade subsequently deteriorated, I cacked me pants. However, apart from a bang and some stuff flying off, not much else happened.
I often have to de-burr beams and always use this method until the blades inevitably break up. Sometimes they just break a little and sometimes they go with a dramatic muck and bullets type bang. Never have they done me any damage though. Guess I have either been lucky or that the guard is very well positioned and designed.
Good advice. Perhaps I should have said "be confident" in place of "man up".
Ho hum.
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I assume you are using a grinding and not a cutting disc right?
http://www.screwfix.com/p/flexovit-metal-grinding-discs-230-x-6-x-22-23mm-bore-pack-of-5/37740#
http://www.screwfix.com/p/flexovit-metal-grinding-discs-230-x-6-x-22-23mm-bore-pack-of-5/37740#
Correct, always let the blade do the cutting, if it's not cutting then change the blade, it's the same with any power or hand blades
I have never had an issue with a disk-burst.
But I do turn it on held away from myself the first time its been used since storage, in case the disk has been damage, almost always use with the guard on (also stops your fingers going into the back of the disk!) , and were proper safety glasses that are impact rated and clear so I can see what im doing!
Daniel
But I do turn it on held away from myself the first time its been used since storage, in case the disk has been damage, almost always use with the guard on (also stops your fingers going into the back of the disk!) , and were proper safety glasses that are impact rated and clear so I can see what im doing!
Daniel
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May be in bad taste - I wonder how he lost his arms?!
