cut off wheels

[Ranger#1]

whats your prefrence in 4 1/2 cut off wheels i usally buy the chepos for 5 for 5$ but i go through them like butter especially when the grinder starts hopping i cant get em to stick on the meterial

 

[Psychopete]

whats your prefrence in 4 1/2 cut off wheels i usally buy the chepos for 5 for 5$ but i go through them like butter especially when the grinder starts hopping i cant get em to stick on the meterial

LOL, that's hard to picture. I would be curious on how you are going about approaching the metal. Maybe it's just the discs are chipping from trying to rush and the ridges are causing the hopping? Are you keeping the grinder strait through the cut? Have you tried a better quality disc? I usually pick up what TSC has cheapest that fits my grinder...

Pete

 

[97BlackBetty]

I buy disks by the boxload. I tried some of those long lasting, high quality jazz disks and just wasted my money. Personally, the more care I take to ensure a straight clean cut, the longer my disks last.

 

[odie1969]

I just buy the bulk pack at harborfrieght and they seem to work great for me.

 

[BlackBII]

They chip and break when you cut crooked, and when you have spaghetti arms so the die grinder bounces and jumps back and forth.

Hold 'er steady!

 

[martin]

The thinner the disk the better. The best ones I've found are called elastic wheel and are supposedly for stainless. I have occasionally found cheap disks that work quite well but anything over a sixteenth thick is just a wast of time.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Metabo or Razor Blade
http://www.handhelditems.com/slicer-wheel-cutting-wheel-7834-655339000-metabo-p-57858.html

http://www.mahanyweld.com/Cut-Off%20Wheels/cutoff_wheel_flexovit_razorblade_6_f1707.asp

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Walter ZipCuts. The cheapo's have a bad habit of flying apart.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I've used some el-cheapos before...

My boss used to buy whatever metal cutting blade was cheapest to run on a junk power saw for cutting rebar an steel decking. Problem was, cutting decking he'd go through about a blade a cut. Then the one time he went to the store, they were sold out of the cheap ones and he needed blades bad, and picked up a pack of Metabos. Yea, no more cheapos, the Metabo blades held up so much better there was no comparison.

And I have a huge selection of their stuff for a 4.5" grinder (two different thickness cutting disks for stainless/mild steel, couple 6" cutoff wheels, 6" grinding disk, 4.5" grinding disks, flap wheels, knot wire wheels, knot wire cups, masonary cutting disks, masonary grinding wheels....)

Oh, yea, they're made in Germany... the Krauts know quality.