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    Get more from your angle grinder

    Simple add that makes using angle grinder more accurate. ( and maybe safer )


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    Thanks Tuomas! We've added your Angle Grinder Cutting Guide to our Metalworking category,
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    FANTASTIC tool mod!

    "No matter how expensive, a tool is just a kit, a place to start, then you mod it to the job at hand."
    Charles Waugh
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    "Any tool is just a kit, to be modified as needed for the job at hand"

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    Quote Originally Posted by CharlesWaugh View Post
    FANTASTIC tool mod!

    "No matter how expensive, a tool is just a kit, a place to start, then you mod it to the job at hand."
    Thanks.

    Best thing is that its very simple to make and use.
    That also makes it little "lame", no cool adjustments or stoppers / guides.

    Personally i think that this version is much better than my first version about the angle grinder cutting guide, that i posted here some years ago.

    This keeps cut off wheel in optimal angle / depth, then cutting is done in most balanced "7-8 o'clock" section of the wheel.

    It doesn't need to be removed when grinding / sanding, light weighted...

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    Great idea Tuomas, I have trouble following a line amid all those sparks so that will be my next project. Simple but very effective.

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    Quote Originally Posted by olderdan View Post
    Great idea Tuomas, I have trouble following a line amid all those sparks so that will be my next project. Simple but very effective.
    Thanks buddy.

    It really is a simple solution.
    If you clamp a liner to the plate and use it as a guide, you don't even need to see the line.

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    Brilliant!
    How many guys bobble parting when using cut-off wheels? This 'shoe' works surprising well, I'd think anybody could improve their cuts with one.
    Compared to a circular saw [which cut from below], the shoe is critical, being a climb cut. Tuomas's guide achieves same result, stabilizing down pressure on the material.
    Not to mention Tuomas is a cut wheel wizard, doing work many will struggle with their bandsaw to equal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toolmaker51 View Post
    Brilliant!
    How many guys bobble parting when using cut-off wheels? This 'shoe' works surprising well, I'd think anybody could improve their cuts with one.
    Compared to a circular saw [which cut from below], the shoe is critical, being a climb cut. Tuomas's guide achieves same result, stabilizing down pressure on the material.
    Not to mention Tuomas is a cut wheel wizard, doing work many will struggle with their bandsaw to equal.
    Thanks.

    This was the first version of it. Made just for pipe, axle and threaded rod cutting.
    It has guides on both sides, that makes it more accurate on that task. But then it blocks other uses of the grinder.

    Get more from your angle grinder-img_8576.jpg

    With this kind of guide, and when cutting mostly rebars or welded mesh, using diamond cut off wheel could be good option.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuomas View Post
    Thanks.

    This was the first version of it. Made just for pipe, axle and threaded rod cutting.
    It has guides on both sides, that makes it more accurate on that task. But then it blocks other uses of the grinder.

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    With this kind of guide, and when cutting mostly rebars or welded mesh, using diamond cut off wheel could be good option.
    re the diamond wheel; not long ago I was supplied with an ordinary DeWalt 4-1/2" angle grinder for a field job. Not a grinding wheel, nor cut-off wheel, flap or flat sanding disc....used a carbide tipped circular saw, about 20-24 teeth, barely negative rake. I notched reliefs in formed C1018 plate a full 1/2" thick, heavier of course in the corners. It cut beyond my ability to describe, in both feed rate, finish, and burr free. Haven't searched out a supply yet, but they were DeWalt also.
    I mean, 1/2" plate, guided by hand to felt tip marks! Even a Port-A-Band could not have done it.
    PS. Be certain guards installed, and path for chips clear. DAMHIKT
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toolmaker51 View Post
    re the diamond wheel; not long ago I was supplied with an ordinary DeWalt 4-1/2" angle grinder for a field job. Not a grinding wheel, nor cut-off wheel, flap or flat sanding disc....used a carbide tipped circular saw, about 20-24 teeth, barely negative rake. I notched reliefs in formed C1018 plate a full 1/2" thick, heavier of course in the corners. It cut beyond my ability to describe, in both feed rate, finish, and burr free. Haven't searched out a supply yet, but they were DeWalt also.
    I mean, 1/2" plate, guided by hand to felt tip marks! Even a Port-A-Band could not have done it.
    PS. Be certain guards installed, and path for chips clear. DAMHIKT
    That sure is effective, but little scary.
    I was working on the shipyard 22 years ago. We used similar blade for cutting bevels to alumine decks. That hitted really hard if you didn't stay focused to what you are doing.
    I learned a lot things not to do, during those two years in ship manufacturing.

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