I hope you all enjoy the video and find it informative. Let me know what you think. I'd love to know if you can think of any other grinder accessories that I didn't cover. Thanks for watching.
What about a chasing attachment? 2 masonry wheels mounted about 30mm apart for chasing water pipes or electrical conduit. Works a charm, but don't use the wife's vacuum for dust extraction! Cost me a lot of money for a new one!
I had a lot of old pipes and rebar to cut up and from what I read ruclips.net/user/postUgkxPDBfLu68o58Aw85O_J-zIFfjJARBhp-3 this would be the tool for the job. Since I had never used one, I watched a couple of youtube videos and I'm so glad I did. Some really good safety tips, which I followed, and this tool did a splendid job. One good thing to know is the weight of the tool puts just about the right amount of pressure on the metal I was cutting, so I didn't have to use a lot of pressure, which is more likely to jam the tool. It made fast work of my job.
A very useful video. I bought my first angle grinder a month or so ago to help cut out mortar so I could repoint a stone building with lime. It has proven slow going with fibre discs. As a result of seeing this video I bought a diamond cutting disc for masonry. It’s been a revelation. The speed of cut is better than I could have hoped for, and it’s reduced the chiselling effort substantially. Thanks. 👍
Well done bro.. liked & supported.. very knowledgeble & informative.. Qs. I have a rough wall with old paint but unfortunately I don't own a orbital sander. Which type of angle grinder disc do you recommend for removal of old rough concrete wall paint? The wire cup wheel does a pretty good job on a rough wall but it takes too much time and effort to cover a large area of wall as the contact area with the cup is smaller. I have a 4 inch angle grinder and I'm thinking you'd suggest the one with the hook & loop velcro pad with 60 grit sanding pad?
I really enjoy your channel. You and This Old Tony and The Fabrication Series and Pask Makes are how I spend whatever free time I have. Learning how to do new things has kept me sane during Covid lockdown and I don't know if I could have survived without you guys. So thank you. Keep doing what you're doing. You've hit on the exact right recipe for success. You may only have ~ 30K subscribers, but I watched those other channels above grown from tiny channels and they took much longer to hit on the thing that makes a YT channel successful. You will be up to a million in about three years I'm betting.
@@Handmadeextreme You'll get there. In all seriousness, the first 100k is the hardest. After that it starts a critical mass that accelerates growth. But you do such quality work and have such quality video production you are bound to do well. Ask any big YT channel and they'll tell you if it takes 4 years to get 100k, then 250k happens in 2 years, 500k in one year, and 750k in 6 months and 1 million in 90 days. No exactly those number, but the idea holds. The more subscribers you have the faster you add new ones.
@@Handmadeextreme And, thank you for the videos. They keep me sane and for me, this stuff is a hobby, but I love it and can tell when i watch these videos you love it too. So, that's a big part of it: connecting with others who share our love of building things with our hands and learning and mastering our tools.
Another little tip for when you are using number 8. When using a diamond cutting disks for tiles is you have a wet sponge and hold it next to the disk when cutting it stops all the dust. Hope that makes sense. Great video as always!
Thanks, just getting my head around how many discs are actually available. This video shortens that list. Very helpful as I now require just a few of those discs.
Great video. Very useful. I bought an angle grinder a few years ago to refinish a stainless steel bathtub. The brush made short work of the loose tub paint epoxy and I was a le to repeat it successfully. Your video has given me all sorts of ideas for new uses of my angle gri der now.
I've often thought I'd like to make a concrete counter top. I can see that diamond grinding wheel would be a life saver. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I’ve seen some interesting countertops with objects imbedded in the countertop. Coins but other objects I don’t quite remember. Maybe leaves that left an impression in the top. The items were placed on the bottom of the mold and the concrete poured over them. They were quite long counters and required rebar. Used in a trendy shop in San Francisco back in the 90s.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Mentioning the leaves, at one time, I was going to do that with a fern and plaster of Paris on a slate tabletop we have. could paint it to look like a fossil. Make an interesting wall hanging.
Thanks for an informative and sensible review of grinder accessories. The only improvement that I'd respectfully suggest would be that it's a bit safer when cleaning up the sharp edges of metal to have the abrasive wheel covering the workpiece and to grind away from the edge where possible.
I do agree that the small angle grinders (usually 115mm) are highly versatile power tools. That versatility can be further extended with some of the reputable tool brand 18/20volt cordless models. They're certainly not the cheap option but do come into their own on awkward to access jobs. I recently added a cordless 18 volt die grinder to my grinding stable. Fitted with carbide cutting burrs it is a brilliant bit of kit.
This was a very educational video. I use an angle grinder a lot, but did not realize how many different wheels are available. Your demos were fantastic. Truely, thank you for sharing. 👍
Great Video! You are right about the chain saw blade attachments, as a woodcarver, I can speak to the danger of these hideous tools. There are many instances where the kickback knocked the tool out of the hands and crawled up the user's body causing serious injury, and now there are copies of these coming out that are even cheaper to buy tempting novice carvers to buy one. Please note that there are safer alternatives that have 3 or 4 heavy carbide teeth that accomplish the same thing but without the kickback danger and with more control and only cost about $20 US.
@@Handmadeextreme Here is the one I use, it has rounded teeth excellent for cutting straight or carving. www.amazon.com/Original-Speedcutter-Woodworking-Grinder-Manufacturer/dp/B07KFJ31G6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=carbide+angle+grinder+blade&qid=1593068402&sr=8-2
Check out the Bosch Carbide Multi Wheel disc. They are absolutely brilliant with wood and other materials that the old range of cutters (diamond, abrasive etc) just aren't designed to deal with. And you don't need to carry a spare pair of undercrackers (and a thumb and forefinger) like with the chainsaw wheel. As a tradesman there are few purchases that have revolutionised my work but this is one of them.
A word from a 30+ year mason. Those wide rake wheels do what they claim to do, but they grind along pretty slowly and they get your grinders very hot quickly. They do last a very long time - I've seen masons who use them burn up 10 or 12 grinders but save the disk which still works good to burn up another grinder. Most people may seldom grind out joints, but I do very often, and I've found that using a thin diamond blade in two passes, one on each side of the joint and popping out the middle with a trowel edge or chisel is still much quicker, and cost you far fewer grinders, and even though it is still very dusty, it's far less dust than grinding it all out is. They'll still get hot and need to cool off, but you'll get to work more than the cooling time with the thin diamond blades. Another tip for whichever grinder blade you chose, if you have a good sized project to grind out and tuck point back in - start with two ( or more) angle grinders and blades so as soon as one gets too warm, you can set it by a fan in the shade, and hopefully by the time the second is hot, the first is ready to go again. ( If you're using rake wheels, you might need 4 or more grinders to get in 8 hours of grinding in an 8 hour day without burning up some grinders )
Great comment Brad, Thank you. Always good to get comments from experienced trade people and learn new tricks and tips. Thanks for watching and sharing your knowledge. 👍
@@stephenarling1667 I use them all the time, but not usually to clean joints for tuck pointing, more for removing brick or block when masonry units need to be replaced, or if the faces of them do. The impacting going on around joints would chip up the neighboring block or brick too much, leading to me having to replace more and more. I would cut around the joints surrounding the units I were taking out on the outside of those joints first with thin diamond on a grinder. Maybe even cut that brick I were removing, depending on the hardness of it, a few times in the middle with a grinder too, so pressure had somewhere to go other than into neighboring units. Then I'd get the SDS hammer drill and chisel that unit from the middle outward taking out chunks and getting very careful, maybe even going to hammer and chisel when I got real close to the edges, to units that don't need removed (yet, there's likely to be a few anyway, but less of them is better). I wouldn't try a hammer drill on joints * with a chisel just to remove the mortar from the joints - there would be chips everywhere that you tried it. I will use a hammer drill with an SDS drill bit to drill holes that are smaller than the joint close together, and at several angles within the joint connecting holes, removing mortar, around a unit if my grinder not getting deep enough is causing too many neighbors to chip. Hammer drills with chisels are just too aggressive for fine work, but excellent for demo when used with a grinder or diamond saw. When you just want the joints out to tuck new mud in two thin grinder cuts, one on each side of the joint and remove the middle is still cleanest, easiest, and fastest. Don't think of it as twice the cutting, it's not. You are cutting only two narrow slices that still only add up to a small portion of one wide one that a rake wheel cuts and it's more than twice as fast due to what you don't have to cut. That narrow piece left between your two cuts isn't that tuff to get out. You can usually just stick the edge of a brick trowel in either cut and twist your wrist and pop out a foot or more of the remaining middle easily in seconds.
I just bought an angle grinder today to shorten the legs on a new shop stool. Worked like a charm but I was wondering what else I could use it for. Extremely helpful video, thanks for the info!
Great vid! I just bought my first angle grinder, a cordless one. After watching your video I'm even more excited than I was that I have one now. The things I'll be able to do! If I discover any uses for it you didn't mention I'll be sure to post it here.
Good video. The last blade, for grinding out mortar joints, is also called a tuckpointing blade. Might make it easier to find. They create a lot of dust, as you can imagine.
Very informative thanks. You can get 3 tooth wood cutting discs which are supposedly much less likely to maim the operator! Would be interesting to see what you thought of these.
Well CS Guess Im past my prime and need to stay out of clubs. Last time i was grinding and flapping there were no women to be found, only a bunch of dust and grit. Getting old sucks but, i did have all the white powder my nose could handle. Heh heh heh
@@mikejung3908 same reaction from my wife: "do you really need another xxxxxx"? She doesn't understand that "need" has little to do with it - "want" rules when tools are involved. ;-)
I have a corded grinder (for years) and I love it so much that I decided to get a cordless one with variable speed. A speed control helps with sending and also gentile buffing. One attachment that I use and I did not see in your video is a carbon tipped saw blade that fits 4 1/2 inch grinder. I use it to trim trees from branches 1-2 inch thick. The grinder cuts right by the trunk, fast and clean. Cordless very helpful.
Thanks very much. I've just had a quick look and it looks like some really specialist stuff. Iv'e learnt something new before 10AM. Fantastic. Thanks. 👍👍
Recently got my 1st angle grinder to cut some rebar but noticed all the other types of attachments which was somewhat bewildering. Your video was extremely helpful in solving the mystery! Thanks for the time & effort you put in making it.
2 tips with wire wheels. 1 do not use gloves with any sort of weave anywhere on them when using them (they can catch and force their way under the gloves or just catch and dig in). 2 use a leather apron when using them, it will save you pulling wires out of your legs and chest. And a bonus one, use a face shield for the same reason. I promise the above is worth doing from personal experience. Also some grinders come with an safety clutch, also useful with wire wheels if your wearing a baggie t shirt.... Yeah using a wire wheel on a grinder wasn't the way to go when stripping the paint off my Colchester chipmaster lathe. In the end the karcher with a sand blasting fitting was way better. Oh and great video btw.
@@Handmadeextreme no problem, your video is really good I thought you were well established by the quality and content of it. Keep up the good work I look forward to more.
Thanks so much for this ... I just bought an angle grinder because I wanted to grind stone.It's still in the box. Sometimes you go to the store and are overwhelmed by all the choices of discs. I have stood in front of the display ... for quite a while ... and usually leave empty handed. They are SO expensive and I don't want to buy the wrong thing. NOW, with your wonderful video and demos, I am going straight away to the store and get a diamond wheel!!!!!
Great stuff, I'm glad it helped you. I hope you project goes well remember there are diamond cutting and diamond grinding wheels might be worth getting one of each. Good luck and stay safe. Thanks for the support.
@@Handmadeextreme Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, some people at stores know very little about their products so people like me rely on people like you for the best advice!
When you’re positioning your body at the start of the cut, lean back a little. As you make the cut, don’t move your arms, lean your whole body forward.
Thanks for the video. I am thinking to buy a angle grinder but didn’t know what disc should I buy for cutting aluminium security door to replace the aluminium mesh . Now I have idea
The angel grinder, one of my favorite tool of mass destruction. the other is the reciprocating saw. Great demo on the masonry blades which Ive never used yet !
Check out Stumpy Nubs wood working channel, where even with all the safety gear and care, he nearly losses 2 fingers making a wood carving video with that thing. He does a couple of follow up videos explaining how he doesn't believe that it can ever be used safely.
@@blarglemantheskeptic it can deffintly be used saftly i had a woodworking teacher who used to competions with chainsawa those and chisels its like a lathe it takes alot of practice and at any point a small mistake can kill u He used to tell me.key is always make sure ur tools as sharp as possible avoid knots pay atention to the grain and always go in the directiong the it it chatches it goes away from u that can mean alot more work sometimes but its worth ur life All that and he still wouldnt let me practice with out him watching directly and never taught me any off the chain saw stuff
@@alockworkorange7296 see, that's the problem: everyone makes small mistakes sometimes. Looking at the way risk mitigation is approached (I'm an engineer), where it isn't possible to design away the risk entirely, what you need is multiple safety players between the hazard and the event. This is why you use a push stick and a blade guard with riving knife whenever possible on a table saw, and you avoid having trip hazards around was well. This idea is also used in the pharmaceutical industry. Drug manufacturers want products where the gap between a "therapeutic" dose and a fatal one needs to be as wide as possible. They don't want 1 pill is good, 2 pills is dead. With paracetamol/acetaminophen the dose is 1g and you are pretty safe up to 10g. With the chainsaw disk, none of the mitigations available significantly assist in adding those layers, meaning that the tiniest error can become catastrophic in the blink of an eye.
Sept 24th '22 i was using this grinder to cut some wood and it slipped and chopped off my left fingers. Dear all, use gloves and be very careful. My music career is gone.
I'm so glad I've watched this video - I was about to purchase a chainsaw disk but am rethinking now about just getting a blade one for carving wood. Will be improving my safety gear when using it too since watching this.
The versatility convinced me to go with a (much cheaper!) angle grinder for my third floor demo project rather than a very expensive oscillating multi-tool. Thanks!
I use the plastic backed sanding disc with the screw flange in the middle to hold the paper ,with a very course disc it is good for wood carving as well.
Brilliant video. Very informative. Been helping my builder brother in law renovate his house during lockdown, and his grinder was his goto bit of kit. Terrifying to use so appreciate your use of safety gloves etc. I want one one just wouldn't use it enough. Car polisher maybe. 🇬🇧
Great job showing/ telling about the various uses! Even with many years of metalworking experience, I did not know about the chainsaw blade attachment! OMG, yes that's an attention getter. My woodworking skills are basic at best, but I'm psyched to try the chain saw blade, in making art objects from old/ recycled wood. Super cool! I've used grinder / sander disks on wood, and they indeed have a rapid cut rate, and yep, mess is guaranteed. For the wood chip/ wood dust issue, I've rigged up the shop vac in various ways to collect "most" of the dust, or preferably gone outside entirely, to save my shop are from looking like it just snowed saw dust, inside ;) I'd point out that with any of the sanding/ grinding types, it's a REALLY good idea to wear a good dust mask, or a well-fit respirator w/ cartridges. Significant exposure to metal and or ceramic dust can be a serious health issue. Fantastic vid and explanations! Love the bow tie too :)
I've raked, literally, miles of mortar in my day, with a grinder... the old school wide abrasive discs work fine, at a much lower cost than the diamond rake wheels. Do the horizontal runs until the disc wears down a bit then go back and do the vertical joints (*you can see in this video the diamond rake wheel comes very close to being too large to do the vertical joints without damaging the bricks). Be prepared to kill off a grinder with all the dust they ingest... perfect reason to buy the cheapest grinder Harbor Freight sells along with a 10-pack of the grinding discs.
Your video is unique. Not many out there that will show you the full scope. I wish I watched it sooner. I'm a beginner and my first project was a welding table that I designed and fabricated myself just last week. Sadly, didn't take any videos of my progress (too many mistakes). Great vid! Thank you!
You might already know this, arbortech has some great attachments for angle grinders, for wood carving. Great info about different disks to use with an angle grinder.
thank you for nice explanation. could you pls advice me what kind of bit should I use to clean up the garage doors from the old paint which is qiuet loose and chippy?
Like your video, and like you, love the versatility of the angle grinder. One great tip I learned from someone on you tube, I cant remember who, sorry, was a way to cut corrugated iron and I guess other light panel. And don't dismiss until you have tried it. Use a standard thin diamond masonry cutting wheel as seen on your vid here on your same angle grinder and a 1000% better than standard friction disc.Better control, cuts faster and lasts and lasts!
Thank you for the great video! I bought my first angle grinder last week and although I knew about almost all of these accessories, I only knew how to use a few of them. I have used angle grinders on occasion before, but never owned one until now. I have some rough spots in my patio that I'm going to get one of the diamond grinding wheels to smooth them out. Cheers!
very nice demonstration of all these kinds of cutting of discs! thank you for going through the effort to show this... I didn't know a grinder has so many uses, I thought it's just for cutting stone.
I hope you all enjoy the video and find it informative. Let me know what you think. I'd love to know if you can think of any other grinder accessories that I didn't cover. Thanks for watching.
If you like wood carving, have a look at the manpa range of tools, inparticular the multi cutter. Fantastic little grinder attachment
Awesome thanks for the tip.
Thanks!!!!
What about a chasing attachment? 2 masonry wheels mounted about 30mm apart for chasing water pipes or electrical conduit. Works a charm, but don't use the wife's vacuum for dust extraction! Cost me a lot of money for a new one!
Extremely helpful.
I had a lot of old pipes and rebar to cut up and from what I read ruclips.net/user/postUgkxPDBfLu68o58Aw85O_J-zIFfjJARBhp-3 this would be the tool for the job. Since I had never used one, I watched a couple of youtube videos and I'm so glad I did. Some really good safety tips, which I followed, and this tool did a splendid job. One good thing to know is the weight of the tool puts just about the right amount of pressure on the metal I was cutting, so I didn't have to use a lot of pressure, which is more likely to jam the tool. It made fast work of my job.
I just want you to know that I 100% appreciate you for taking all the time to put this together for us. Great work and thanks!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
i dont even own one, but find this so Intriguing
Is it just me or is this 100 times more interesting than the crap on the TV I pay stupid money for! 🤔. Thanks - you got a new sub😉
A very useful video. I bought my first angle grinder a month or so ago to help cut out mortar so I could repoint a stone building with lime. It has proven slow going with fibre discs. As a result of seeing this video I bought a diamond cutting disc for masonry. It’s been a revelation. The speed of cut is better than I could have hoped for, and it’s reduced the chiselling effort substantially.
Thanks. 👍
Glad it was helpful! and good luck with you project.
This was such a great instructional video. I appreciate you taking the time to show each grinder in action!
Thanks glad you found it useful.
Well done bro.. liked & supported.. very knowledgeble & informative.. Qs. I have a rough wall with old paint but unfortunately I don't own a orbital sander. Which type of angle grinder disc do you recommend for removal of old rough concrete wall paint?
The wire cup wheel does a pretty good job on a rough wall but it takes too much time and effort to cover a large area of wall as the contact area with the cup is smaller.
I have a 4 inch angle grinder and I'm thinking you'd suggest the one with the hook & loop velcro pad with 60 grit sanding pad?
I really enjoy your channel. You and This Old Tony and The Fabrication Series and Pask Makes are how I spend whatever free time I have. Learning how to do new things has kept me sane during Covid lockdown and I don't know if I could have survived without you guys. So thank you. Keep doing what you're doing. You've hit on the exact right recipe for success. You may only have ~ 30K subscribers, but I watched those other channels above grown from tiny channels and they took much longer to hit on the thing that makes a YT channel successful. You will be up to a million in about three years I'm betting.
Thanks for the support it's very much appreciated. I hope you are right about the growth. 1M subscribers would be excellent.👍👍
@@Handmadeextreme You'll get there. In all seriousness, the first 100k is the hardest. After that it starts a critical mass that accelerates growth. But you do such quality work and have such quality video production you are bound to do well. Ask any big YT channel and they'll tell you if it takes 4 years to get 100k, then 250k happens in 2 years, 500k in one year, and 750k in 6 months and 1 million in 90 days. No exactly those number, but the idea holds. The more subscribers you have the faster you add new ones.
@@Handmadeextreme And, thank you for the videos. They keep me sane and for me, this stuff is a hobby, but I love it and can tell when i watch these videos you love it too. So, that's a big part of it: connecting with others who share our love of building things with our hands and learning and mastering our tools.
Oh yeh, Mr. Old Tony is where it's at!
Super useful. Thanks a lot. Now my search for discs begins.
Glad it helped
Another little tip for when you are using number 8. When using a diamond cutting disks for tiles is you have a wet sponge and hold it next to the disk when cutting it stops all the dust. Hope that makes sense. Great video as always!
Great tip! Thanks very much. I'll be sure to try that next time. Thanks again for watching. 👍👍👍👍
Great video! My favorite discs are for shaping wood. You only showed one - the chainsaw disc; but there are others that are great and much less scary.
Thank you, a very clear introduction to all the grinder accessories and good demo video.
Thank you, i'm glad you found it helpful.
02:08 - Pure skill! I love when people get straight lines on cuts. You temporarily cured my OCD. Hopefully it stays gone for a while.
Hi Jim, thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it and got something out of it. 👍
Thanks, just getting my head around how many discs are actually available.
This video shortens that list. Very helpful as I now require just a few of those discs.
Thanks, i'm glad it was helpful. 👍
Tis is the most complete and accurte Angle Grinder Accessories video-tutorial I have seen in youtube for years.
Thank you.
I especially learned a lot about the diamond grinding wheel...that is pretty cool. I've never actually seen in being used. Thanks for the video.
Thank you, Gad it was helpful.
Very informative with short demonstrations actually saved people time and money...love the tie...🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you. Glad you found it useful.
Thank you for the video... from Philippines!
Great video. Very useful. I bought an angle grinder a few years ago to refinish a stainless steel bathtub. The brush made short work of the loose tub paint epoxy and I was a le to repeat it successfully. Your video has given me all sorts of ideas for new uses of my angle gri der now.
Glad you found it helpful and good luck with your project. 👍
I've often thought I'd like to make a concrete counter top. I can see that diamond grinding wheel would be a life saver. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
They are really good but make sure you wear a respirator, the dust cloud is all enveloping. Thanks for watching. 👍
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I’ve seen some interesting countertops with objects imbedded in the countertop. Coins but other objects I don’t quite remember. Maybe leaves that left an impression in the top. The items were placed on the bottom of the mold and the concrete poured over them. They were quite long counters and required rebar. Used in a trendy shop in San Francisco back in the 90s.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Mentioning the leaves, at one time, I was going to do that with a fern and plaster of Paris on a slate tabletop we have. could paint it to look like a fossil. Make an interesting wall hanging.
Thanks for your post, I am very happy to see that wood sanding one, hook and loop
Awesome, thank you so much for several new types of discs to me!!!!!
No problem!
I use my grinder all the time, and did not realize, it had so many more possibilities. Thanks a lot.
Glad I could help!
Thanks for an informative and sensible review of grinder accessories. The only improvement that I'd respectfully suggest would be that it's a bit safer when cleaning up the sharp edges of metal to have the abrasive wheel covering the workpiece and to grind away from the edge where possible.
Thank you and what a great suggestion, thank you for sharing 👍👍
very helpful. newbie here and not familiar with different kind of discs. now I know. thanks
Thanks, glad you found it useful.
@@Handmadeextreme thank you
I do agree that the small angle grinders (usually 115mm) are highly versatile power tools. That versatility can be further extended with some of the reputable tool brand 18/20volt cordless models. They're certainly not the cheap option but do come into their own on awkward to access jobs. I recently added a cordless 18 volt die grinder to my grinding stable. Fitted with carbide cutting burrs it is a brilliant bit of kit.
Great comment, Thanks for watching.
This was a very educational video. I use an angle grinder a lot, but did not realize how many different wheels are available. Your demos were fantastic. Truely, thank you for sharing. 👍
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your support.
Great Video!
You are right about the chain saw blade attachments, as a woodcarver, I can speak to the danger of these hideous tools. There are many instances where the kickback knocked the tool out of the hands and crawled up the user's body causing serious injury, and now there are copies of these coming out that are even cheaper to buy tempting novice carvers to buy one. Please note that there are safer alternatives that have 3 or 4 heavy carbide teeth that accomplish the same thing but without the kickback danger and with more control and only cost about $20 US.
Thanks, i'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah they are lethal. I'v not seen the carbide ones, i'll have to take a look at them, thanks. 👍
@@Handmadeextreme Here is the one I use, it has rounded teeth excellent for cutting straight or carving.
www.amazon.com/Original-Speedcutter-Woodworking-Grinder-Manufacturer/dp/B07KFJ31G6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=carbide+angle+grinder+blade&qid=1593068402&sr=8-2
Thank You now I know what these disks are used for. I got some of them and Thanks to you I know how and for what to use them for. Thank's Again.
Check out the Bosch Carbide Multi Wheel disc. They are absolutely brilliant with wood and other materials that the old range of cutters (diamond, abrasive etc) just aren't designed to deal with. And you don't need to carry a spare pair of undercrackers (and a thumb and forefinger) like with the chainsaw wheel. As a tradesman there are few purchases that have revolutionised my work but this is one of them.
Awesome, they sound great. I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation and sharing your experience.
I’ve just bought my first angle grinder and this is super helpful. Thanks loads mate
A word from a 30+ year mason. Those wide rake wheels do what they claim to do, but they grind along pretty slowly and they get your grinders very hot quickly. They do last a very long time - I've seen masons who use them burn up 10 or 12 grinders but save the disk which still works good to burn up another grinder. Most people may seldom grind out joints, but I do very often, and I've found that using a thin diamond blade in two passes, one on each side of the joint and popping out the middle with a trowel edge or chisel is still much quicker, and cost you far fewer grinders, and even though it is still very dusty, it's far less dust than grinding it all out is. They'll still get hot and need to cool off, but you'll get to work more than the cooling time with the thin diamond blades. Another tip for whichever grinder blade you chose, if you have a good sized project to grind out and tuck point back in - start with two ( or more) angle grinders and blades so as soon as one gets too warm, you can set it by a fan in the shade, and hopefully by the time the second is hot, the first is ready to go again. ( If you're using rake wheels, you might need 4 or more grinders to get in 8 hours of grinding in an 8 hour day without burning up some grinders )
Great comment Brad, Thank you. Always good to get comments from experienced trade people and learn new tricks and tips. Thanks for watching and sharing your knowledge. 👍
Brad do u know of any dust collection attachment for doing masonary work?
Brad Payn, have you used the chisel tip SDS bits on hammer mode for clearing out mortar?
@@stephenarling1667 I use them all the time, but not usually to clean joints for tuck pointing, more for removing brick or block when masonry units need to be replaced, or if the faces of them do. The impacting going on around joints would chip up the neighboring block or brick too much, leading to me having to replace more and more. I would cut around the joints surrounding the units I were taking out on the outside of those joints first with thin diamond on a grinder. Maybe even cut that brick I were removing, depending on the hardness of it, a few times in the middle with a grinder too, so pressure had somewhere to go other than into neighboring units. Then I'd get the SDS hammer drill and chisel that unit from the middle outward taking out chunks and getting very careful, maybe even going to hammer and chisel when I got real close to the edges, to units that don't need removed (yet, there's likely to be a few anyway, but less of them is better). I wouldn't try a hammer drill on joints * with a chisel just to remove the mortar from the joints - there would be chips everywhere that you tried it.
I will use a hammer drill with an SDS drill bit to drill holes that are smaller than the joint close together, and at several angles within the joint connecting holes, removing mortar, around a unit if my grinder not getting deep enough is causing too many neighbors to chip.
Hammer drills with chisels are just too aggressive for fine work, but excellent for demo when used with a grinder or diamond saw.
When you just want the joints out to tuck new mud in two thin grinder cuts, one on each side of the joint and remove the middle is still cleanest, easiest, and fastest. Don't think of it as twice the cutting, it's not. You are cutting only two narrow slices that still only add up to a small portion of one wide one that a rake wheel cuts and it's more than twice as fast due to what you don't have to cut. That narrow piece left between your two cuts isn't that tuff to get out. You can usually just stick the edge of a brick trowel in either cut and twist your wrist and pop out a foot or more of the remaining middle easily in seconds.
I just bought an angle grinder today to shorten the legs on a new shop stool. Worked like a charm but I was wondering what else I could use it for. Extremely helpful video, thanks for the info!
Glad it was helpful.
You've help me more then you know. Thank you. Digging the bowtie.
Thank you, Glad it was helpful .
Great vid! I just bought my first angle grinder, a cordless one. After watching your video I'm even more excited than I was that I have one now. The things I'll be able to do! If I discover any uses for it you didn't mention I'll be sure to post it here.
Good video. The last blade, for grinding out mortar joints, is also called a tuckpointing blade. Might make it easier to find. They create a lot of dust, as you can imagine.
The technique you use when cutting with the slitting discs is good for prolonging the life of the disc as well
Very informative thanks. You can get 3 tooth wood cutting discs which are supposedly much less likely to maim the operator! Would be interesting to see what you thought of these.
Thanks, i'm glad it was helpful. I'll check them out, thanks for letting me know. 👍
Diamabrush for removing paint. Only way to go! Thanks for this video! Top notch!!
4:10 grinding and then flapping that sounds like a bad night at the club
😂😂😂😂 Thanks for watching.
Yup, in the 1920's, the hot ladies at the clubs were known as "flappers".
lmao
Well CS
Guess Im past my prime and need to stay out of clubs. Last time i was grinding and flapping there were no women to be found, only a bunch of dust and grit. Getting old sucks but, i did have all the white powder my nose could handle. Heh heh heh
A VERY useful video. Many thanks for your effort and the links to each product.
Glad it was helpful!
Just told my wife I’m watching an extremely interesting video about angle grinder accessories. She looked at me in a very strange way!
Joe Bond that’s because we like to drool over tools.
😂😂 Glad you are both enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching.
Don't worry bro they don't understand like all the ones watching these type of vidz
@@mikejung3908 same reaction from my wife: "do you really need another xxxxxx"? She doesn't understand that "need" has little to do with it - "want" rules when tools are involved. ;-)
exactly the same thing happened to me just now..
I have a corded grinder (for years) and I love it so much that I decided to get a cordless one with variable speed. A speed control helps with sending and also gentile buffing. One attachment that I use and I did not see in your video is a carbon tipped saw blade that fits 4 1/2 inch grinder. I use it to trim trees from branches 1-2 inch thick. The grinder cuts right by the trunk, fast and clean. Cordless very helpful.
Check out the Arbotec grinder stuff, great for wood carving.
Thanks very much. I've just had a quick look and it looks like some really specialist stuff. Iv'e learnt something new before 10AM. Fantastic. Thanks. 👍👍
@@Handmadeextreme be careful with the Arbotec, I shredded my thumb with one about 5 years ago....again that bow tie...
Recently got my 1st angle grinder to cut some rebar but noticed all the other types of attachments which was somewhat bewildering. Your video was extremely helpful in solving the mystery! Thanks for the time & effort you put in making it.
2 tips with wire wheels. 1 do not use gloves with any sort of weave anywhere on them when using them (they can catch and force their way under the gloves or just catch and dig in). 2 use a leather apron when using them, it will save you pulling wires out of your legs and chest. And a bonus one, use a face shield for the same reason.
I promise the above is worth doing from personal experience.
Also some grinders come with an safety clutch, also useful with wire wheels if your wearing a baggie t shirt.... Yeah using a wire wheel on a grinder wasn't the way to go when stripping the paint off my Colchester chipmaster lathe. In the end the karcher with a sand blasting fitting was way better.
Oh and great video btw.
Great advice, Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@Handmadeextreme no problem, your video is really good I thought you were well established by the quality and content of it. Keep up the good work I look forward to more.
Great video. A cutting disc I would recommend is a Kutzall Extreme wood carving disc
Belt sander grinder attachment on amazon great for all kinds of sanding
I thought about making one of those a while ago. Maybe I should revisit the idea. Thanks for reminding me.
Awesome. Explained everything. Getting a variable speed grinder tomorrow
I suggest the "All American Sharpener" as a top 10 accessory.
Ah neat. I had to google that to find out what it was. Great idea, thanks. 👍
Dude! We changed over to variable speed angle grinders and they make all the attachments easier to use. Best of luck!
That was a very interesting and informative video. Thanks for making it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superb introduction video for someone new to an angle grinder
There's some wood removal ones that are a cross between the chainsaw one, and that diamond grinder one that's cupped.
Awesome, thanks i'll have to check them out. Thanks for watching.
@@Handmadeextreme ruclips.net/video/SEyUsjAHPX8/видео.html
Awesome way you put up all the tips and tricks to use the angle grinder mate! Well done
"Now that I've completely obliterated that piece of wood there may be some scratches...'', I was lmao!!
And good video, thank you.
Hahaha, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
You should do comedy.
Thanks so much for this ... I just bought an angle grinder because I wanted to grind stone.It's still in the box. Sometimes you go to the store and are overwhelmed by all the choices of discs. I have stood in front of the display ... for quite a while ... and usually leave empty handed. They are SO expensive and I don't want to buy the wrong thing. NOW, with your wonderful video and demos, I am going straight away to the store and get a diamond wheel!!!!!
Great stuff, I'm glad it helped you. I hope you project goes well remember there are diamond cutting and diamond grinding wheels might be worth getting one of each. Good luck and stay safe. Thanks for the support.
@@Handmadeextreme Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, some people at stores know very little about their products so people like me rely on people like you for the best advice!
How the heck did you cut such a perfect line on that thin metal plate, Im so jealous!
Lots and lots of practice and.. lots and lots of wiggly lines. haha. Thanks for the support.
When you’re positioning your body at the start of the cut, lean back a little. As you make the cut, don’t move your arms, lean your whole body forward.
Thanks, mate, you just gave me a 'fix' on a shed I'm building.
Glad I could help
You make me proud to be English mate! Haha Thanks awfully! lol
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Shared this awesome demo video to our tiny boat shop page today! Thanks very much for doing this.
Cheers, Glad it was helpful.
Ghoosh! why does RUclips teach a lot more than traditional classrooms...
Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful.
A great observation my friend!
Thanks for the video. I am thinking to buy a angle grinder but didn’t know what disc should I buy for cutting aluminium security door to replace the aluminium mesh . Now I have idea
That "absolutely terrifying" comment was gold. Lol.
Hahaha, glad you enjoyed it.
The element of surprise. The long pause followed with "Sadistic person" Did not expect that from a very well spoken English fellow. Priceless!
The angel grinder, one of my favorite tool of mass destruction. the other is the reciprocating saw. Great demo on the masonry blades which Ive never used yet !
Ha ha! You might also use a smoke wrench (oxyacetylene torch with cutting nozzle) for removing bolts imbedded in concrete.
"The most versatile tool in the workshop" ~ROTARY TOOL HAS JOINED THE CHAT~
Haha, glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.
I found the rotary tool does a lot of things, just not very well. Lots of bits wear out incredibly quickly and bits are often flying off.
@7:44 "This thing is brutal" … proceeds to use it one handed with no handle lol.
Great video btw. Lots of good information.
Coming up soon in a budget horror film: the grinder chainsaw torture scene!
Just bought a grinder for some home projects your video was a god send in my recommended thank you for the help
Glad I could help, thanks for watching.
The woodcarving disc is SUPER unsafe they make other types that are safer.
Yeah they are one of those tools that you really have to be on your guard when you are using.
@@Handmadeextreme ya and more importany face sheild and leather apron
Check out Stumpy Nubs wood working channel, where even with all the safety gear and care, he nearly losses 2 fingers making a wood carving video with that thing. He does a couple of follow up videos explaining how he doesn't believe that it can ever be used safely.
@@blarglemantheskeptic it can deffintly be used saftly i had a woodworking teacher who used to competions with chainsawa those and chisels its like a lathe it takes alot of practice and at any point a small mistake can kill u
He used to tell me.key is always make sure ur tools as sharp as possible avoid knots pay atention to the grain and always go in the directiong the it it chatches it goes away from u that can mean alot more work sometimes but its worth ur life
All that and he still wouldnt let me practice with out him watching directly and never taught me any off the chain saw stuff
@@alockworkorange7296 see, that's the problem: everyone makes small mistakes sometimes. Looking at the way risk mitigation is approached (I'm an engineer), where it isn't possible to design away the risk entirely, what you need is multiple safety players between the hazard and the event. This is why you use a push stick and a blade guard with riving knife whenever possible on a table saw, and you avoid having trip hazards around was well.
This idea is also used in the pharmaceutical industry. Drug manufacturers want products where the gap between a "therapeutic" dose and a fatal one needs to be as wide as possible. They don't want 1 pill is good, 2 pills is dead. With paracetamol/acetaminophen the dose is 1g and you are pretty safe up to 10g.
With the chainsaw disk, none of the mitigations available significantly assist in adding those layers, meaning that the tiniest error can become catastrophic in the blink of an eye.
Great video. I’ve been tempted to buy one of those stands that holds the grinder so you can use it like a chop saw.
Sept 24th '22 i was using this grinder to cut some wood and it slipped and chopped off my left fingers. Dear all, use gloves and be very careful. My music career is gone.
Very helpful video..as i'm new to this angle grinding malarky...Thankyou
The state of those gloves😂😁😭
👍😂 Haha, yeah they have seen some action haha. Thanks for watching.
Ha. I have a pair just like them.
Watch for the cool tools. Stayed for the bow tie. Great video. Thanks
Thanks 👍
I wouldn't touch one of those chainsaw disks with a ten foot barge pole, I can't even believe they're legal.
They are super dangerous. It's very rare that it gets used for that very reason.
According to the other video I saw about them earlier, wood carvers use them constantly but who knows how true that is
I'm so glad I've watched this video - I was about to purchase a chainsaw disk but am rethinking now about just getting a blade one for carving wood. Will be improving my safety gear when using it too since watching this.
The versatility convinced me to go with a (much cheaper!) angle grinder for my third floor demo project rather than a very expensive oscillating multi-tool. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing the different uses of these grinder accessories Mate. Hope all is well.
No problem, glad you found it useful.
I use the plastic backed sanding disc with the screw flange in the middle to hold the paper ,with a very course disc it is good for wood carving as well.
Super video,,,loved it,, just the video I was looking for,, 10 different tools awesome,,!
Glad it was helpful!
Interesting video demonstration....I learn a lot. Thanks, very well explained.!!!!
Brilliant video. Very informative. Been helping my builder brother in law renovate his house during lockdown, and his grinder was his goto bit of kit. Terrifying to use so appreciate your use of safety gloves etc. I want one one just wouldn't use it enough. Car polisher maybe.
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Great job showing/ telling about the various uses! Even with many years of metalworking experience, I did not know about the chainsaw blade attachment! OMG, yes that's an attention getter. My woodworking skills are basic at best, but I'm psyched to try the chain saw blade, in making art objects from old/ recycled wood. Super cool! I've used grinder / sander disks on wood, and they indeed have a rapid cut rate, and yep, mess is guaranteed. For the wood chip/ wood dust issue, I've rigged up the shop vac in various ways to collect "most" of the dust, or preferably gone outside entirely, to save my shop are from looking like it just snowed saw dust, inside ;)
I'd point out that with any of the sanding/ grinding types, it's a REALLY good idea to wear a good dust mask, or a well-fit respirator w/ cartridges. Significant exposure to metal and or ceramic dust can be a serious health issue.
Fantastic vid and explanations! Love the bow tie too :)
Having to rake one entire side of the workshop outer brick wall this summer, that wheel could really come in useful! Thanks for the video.
Glad to help! and good luck with the wall. 👍
I've raked, literally, miles of mortar in my day, with a grinder... the old school wide abrasive discs work fine, at a much lower cost than the diamond rake wheels. Do the horizontal runs until the disc wears down a bit then go back and do the vertical joints (*you can see in this video the diamond rake wheel comes very close to being too large to do the vertical joints without damaging the bricks).
Be prepared to kill off a grinder with all the dust they ingest... perfect reason to buy the cheapest grinder Harbor Freight sells along with a 10-pack of the grinding discs.
I have used grinders most of my life , but some of those disc's are news to me ..thanks ..and great bow tie .
Cheers, glad you found it useful.
Your video is unique. Not many out there that will show you the full scope. I wish I watched it sooner. I'm a beginner and my first project was a welding table that I designed and fabricated myself just last week. Sadly, didn't take any videos of my progress (too many mistakes). Great vid! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful. Hope the table turned out well
This was really helpful! Thank you!
Excellent explanation and demonstration 👏👍
You might already know this, arbortech has some great attachments for angle grinders, for wood carving.
Great info about different disks to use with an angle grinder.
Straight to the point and with great examples on how to use the different discs. Great video!!!!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you. Really help me to understand more about angle grinder.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, for a very informative presentation.
great video - thanks, can you recommend an angle grinder blade to cut corrugated perspex without shattering
thank you for nice explanation. could you pls advice me what kind of bit should I use to clean up the garage doors from the old paint which is qiuet loose and chippy?
The diamond grinding wheel is very handy for smoothing out a leather finish granite kitchen counter!
Like your video, and like you, love the versatility of the angle grinder. One great tip I learned from someone on you tube, I cant remember who, sorry, was a way to cut corrugated iron and I guess other light panel. And don't dismiss until you have tried it. Use a standard thin diamond masonry cutting wheel as seen on your vid here on your same angle grinder and a 1000% better than standard friction disc.Better control, cuts faster and lasts and lasts!
Thank you for the great video! I bought my first angle grinder last week and although I knew about almost all of these accessories, I only knew how to use a few of them. I have used angle grinders on occasion before, but never owned one until now. I have some rough spots in my patio that I'm going to get one of the diamond grinding wheels to smooth them out. Cheers!
Excellent, glad it was helpful. Good luck with your project.
great video, very informative. going shopping for accessories now. all the best!
Cheers, Glad you found it helpful.
very nice demonstration of all these kinds of cutting of discs! thank you for going through the effort to show this... I didn't know a grinder has so many uses, I thought it's just for cutting stone.