Angle Grinder Recommendations

Seconded- they're expensive but brilliant for slicing cleanly through all manner of things.

Tim..

The best advice anyone can give you is; buy 2 cheap ones, have a grinding disk on one and a cutting disk on the other. It'll save you hours of changing disks/looking for a spanner etc.

Check ALDI, NETTO and LIDL sites, they have some power tool bargains sometimes, I bought a cheap German grinder from one of 'em ages ago and it's fine :)

I bought a cheap B&D one a few years ago before building my car, it's still going strong, just as my NETTO special is :)

cheapo Clarke from Machine Mart. My experience of angle grinders isthat I kill them in about 13 months (ie just out of warranty) regardlessof make or price. So now I buy the cheap ones - and with this one at £15I can afford to buy another when it dies, and it won't owe me anything.As yet I have failed to kill this one.

Only 500w though. Better value, and slightly cheaper at £14.99 is this 860w one from Screwfix.

it comes in a nice strong fitted case.I baught one a couple of months ago and am quite inpressed with the quality.Mike.

Thanks to all that responded, think that I will probably take up the suggestion of using a few cheap grinders with different disks fitted and treat them as disposable items.

Cheers

Jim

I managed to find some very cheap ones on eBay a couple of months back. Worked out at about 50p each after postage. The thought of them exploding into flying shrapnel had me trying them out very gingerly, but they've been fine. So far...

The Bosch handles are only available with M14x2 threads though. Quite a lot of smaller angle grinders, including older Bosch models have M10x1.5 threads.