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   9619 | Aug 27, 2007 05:14am | #1

   H and H
   What are the uses of an angle grinder?
   Only your imagination limits the uses of an angle grinder if you are willing to make a few modifications. Consider:

   1) remove the guard, drill about six equally space holes near the edge, and tie plastic string to each hole. You now have an edge trimmer for your lawn.

   2) Weld a cup to the blade and you have a high powered martini mixer.

   3) if you gear it down, and hang it from the ceiling, and hang a ball from it which is covered with mirror segments, you have a spinner for a disco ball.

   4) weld a fork to the axle and you can stir paint. You should only not use this technique when the paint can if almost full.

   5) if you attach it to the reel on your fishing rod, you can really reel in your fish very quickly.

   6) connect it to a fan and put the fan at the end of a plastic hose, and you have a pretty good dust collection system.

   The list goes on.
   I hope this helps
   The Angle grinder could be the most useful tool in the shop.

   Have fun.
   Mel

   Measure your output in smiles per board foot. 

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   Steinmetz | Aug 28, 2007 12:44am | #5

   Great suggestions for using angle grinders (Are you that guy on the Red Green show?)Ive used them to undercut hollow steel doors (without taking them down.)

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   spf | Aug 27, 2007 05:51am | #2

   Not furniture work but...

   My angle grinder has helped me break down an old 10' satellite dish.  Most of the rusty bolts and screws could be (un)done properly, but those that wouldn't (or where it was too tight to easily get to) got "the treatment!" 

   It is my favorite hoe, mower blade,  and shovel sharpener.  My lousy bench grinder gets no business now.

   I have used it to (VERY VERY CAREFULLY) re grind my beater chisel.  Better and cooler grinding than my lousy bench grinder, but I probably got lucky on that one...

   I have cut bolts shorter to fit another job.  Beats a hacksaw.

   If you do these projects on the 4th of July you can really save on sparklers!

   Always use hearing and eye protection.

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   DaveDickey | Aug 27, 2007 06:06am | #3

   With the chainsaw toothed blade you can make hamburger out of a couple of your fingers real quick...................  just ask me!   Dave

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   RickL | Aug 27, 2007 02:48pm | #4

   Woodcraft carries the arbortech as well as the Lancelot chainsaw wheels. The Arbor tech is the better with carbide discs. Smoother cutting. Also nice is the Karbide Kutzall which is a tungsten carbide power rasp. Also rotary buurs for a die grinder are available, 1/4"  and 1/8" shank sizes. Not as aggressive as the previous ones I mentioned so it's easier to control.  All kinds of abrasive flap discs available from your auto parts store and mcmaster.  For citting metal the 1/8" abrasive discs are the best. Special discs for aluminum and non-ferrous are available. Underestimaed and over looked tool.

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   troys | Aug 28, 2007 02:37am | #6

   I put a diamond blade on the very same tool and used it to cut stucco

   Troy

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   KeithNewton | Aug 28, 2007 03:15am | #7

   Around my shop, they see a lot of use for shaping contoured shapes. Get a pad to put on the arbor for using the coarsest grit that you can find. Just pretend that you are spreading cake icing, with nice smooth swiping motions with the disk tilted away from the dirrection of travel.

   The greatset use for these tools to come along lately is for coping crown and other moldings. If the wood is soft, they are fast and easy.

   I have about a half dozen of them around. I use them enough, that I don't want to have to hunt for, and change the cutter / wheel / disk, etc.

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   bp21901 | Aug 28, 2007 04:29pm | #8

   A big AMEN to coping crown molding!!!

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   Jimma | Aug 28, 2007 10:14pm | #9

   Not all furniture is made in flat planes, of course, like art nouveau, for example. Using a grinder is one way to "sculpt" a workpiece or to substitute for conventional carving by hand. Consider a chair seat where traditional methods involved using a scorp -- a kind of big curved spokeshave. The grinder, while being very aggressive, is a real time-saver.