Keyser Sose
12-05-2011, 01:08 PM
If you've followed my posts since last year when I put the floors in my 5th gen, you know how much metal I've cut up! That's sheet, flat, bar, and tube stock. Well, Harbor Freight has those 4.5" angle grinders (Chicago Pneumatic) like I have been using on sale this month for $14.95!!! That's the same price I paid for mine. Say what you will about HF and cheap chinese tools, but I have put a LOT of miles on mine and it's still going strong.
Here's the trick to CP electrical tools from HF. When you use it the first few times, use it til it starts getting hot, then stop. It WILL get hot the first 2-3 times you use it. The reason is that the brushes are put in with square ends on them, and are expected to wear to a contour to match the commutator (wears to a curve). As long as you don't overheat it until it has worn the brushes in, it will last a long time. Get it too hot at first, and it will melt the internal wiring, and you'll burn your hand. All of the CP electrical products I have bought from HF have come with spare brushes, and I have yet to put the spares in anything, and I've used the HELL out of my angle grinder and drill!!! Mostly I use the drill with a wire brush cleaning things up, which is hard on it cause it side loads the shaft a lot. I've worn out 5 wire brushes doing this and still on the same drill with the original brushes in it.
Anyway, here's your chance to get a great angle grinder for $15!
:nanawrench:
Here's the trick to CP electrical tools from HF. When you use it the first few times, use it til it starts getting hot, then stop. It WILL get hot the first 2-3 times you use it. The reason is that the brushes are put in with square ends on them, and are expected to wear to a contour to match the commutator (wears to a curve). As long as you don't overheat it until it has worn the brushes in, it will last a long time. Get it too hot at first, and it will melt the internal wiring, and you'll burn your hand. All of the CP electrical products I have bought from HF have come with spare brushes, and I have yet to put the spares in anything, and I've used the HELL out of my angle grinder and drill!!! Mostly I use the drill with a wire brush cleaning things up, which is hard on it cause it side loads the shaft a lot. I've worn out 5 wire brushes doing this and still on the same drill with the original brushes in it.
Anyway, here's your chance to get a great angle grinder for $15!
:nanawrench: