Aldi cutting and grinding discs and flap discs

[stripped fred]

Just bought these, £1.99 each, reduced from £3.99. Can't go wrong at this price!

[dean36014]

Just be aware they don't fit a 4 1/2 grinder as they are too large. Didn't try the flap discs but the cutting discs made mince meat cutting up a car, albeit with the guard removed off the grinder so they fitted.

[KruJoe]

Aye, grinder guards are for pussies.

 

Those flappers are my best friend. They quickly buff away any kind of rust without damaging the good steel, leaving clean polished metal ready for weld or paint.

[rainagain]

Watch out removing the guard I did this on mine to fit a cutting disc, with the intention of re fitting it once the disc wore down. It caught and my hand slipped, made a nice job of slicing my knuckles, I was glad I had gloves on or it could have been worse. Not something I would ever repeat, plus it ruined a good pair of gloves!

[hpi_matrix]

Are they the thin cutting discs? If not they're shit.

[Mally]

Aye, grinder guards are for pussies.

 

 

Had a 9" grinder bounce back once, hit my chin with the guard and split my lip. Thought I'd cut my head in half till I looked in the mirror.

If I hadn't had the guard on...........................

[overrun]

Toolstation is best for the 1mm discs, and grinder guards are for pussies, agreed!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'Grinder guards are for pussies' is for meat heads

[twosmoke300]

Indeed . Having , like others above , been at the sharp end of a grInder, I am pretty cautious about using them now . Things happen so bloody quick and it's not easy fixing cars with fingers missing .

[Uncle Jimmy]

Are they the thin cutting discs? If not they're shit.

Yeah, I'd always thought the thicker discs were for grinding rather than cutting but theyre pooh at that too. Bought some deWalt ones and they'd be hard pressed to do my toenails.

[overrun]

Dunno about others, but I am joking on...

 

I do use the grinder without a guard sometimes, but try not to.

[OwdChina]

Those flap discs are the dogs nads, far faster and a better surface finish than a grinding disc when dressing welds and rough edges etc.

 

Peeps DO NOT use grinders without the wheel guard, if you feel you need to remove it for better access in some places then you are using the wrong tool...............PERIOD !

 

I've seen a thing or two.

[andy18s]

So who's going to post That pic up????????

[Andychancer]

Always makes me cringe when I see people using discs the wrong way too.

As said,using without the guard is asking for trouble,they will ming your face if they kick back.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ha!!!! I'm surprised we've not seen it by now.

[PhillipM]

I have a friend with half of two fingers missing from a disc exploding when he had no guard on.

You don't want that, you can't give anyone the two fingered salute.

[OwdChina]

This is a little drift away from the OP, but, a few years ago i glanced up and noticed a workmate idiot fitting a circular saw blade to an angle grinder. After a brief exchange which came close to a fight, which thankfully the works manager heard in his office, the guy concerned was fired. I never like to see anybody lose their job but in this case I think it did us all a favour, everybody knew he was a liability and sooner or later someone was going to be hurt or worse.

 

I still shudder when I think of the downright dangerous manner that guy used to work. Some people just should not be anywhere near machinery, or cranes, or drills, or saws, or jacks, or winches or anything weighing more than a bag of spuds.

[stripped fred]

Also gloves. I was cutting up some bricks a few weeks ago and the grinder skipped off the brick and across my hand. Took a gouge out of the leather glove but luckily I still have my fingers.

[PiperCub]

Watch out removing the guard I did this on mine to fit a cutting disc, with the intention of re fitting it once the disc wore down. It caught and my hand slipped, made a nice job of slicing my knuckles, I was glad I had gloves on or it could have been worse. Not something I would ever repeat, plus it ruined a good pair of gloves!

 

Of course this is something I'd never do

 

(he says, hiding his left index finger discretely thus concealing the cut sustained using exactly these discs last week....... No, I won't be doing it again! Lesson learned)

[fatharris]

I too have been caught out by complacency and taking the guard off, flap disc bounced across my knuckles.

 

Never, ever again.

[PiperCub]

^^ Neither did I until a week ago! 

[paulplom]

You should always wear eye protection too. I was cutting up the kids trampoline with my Makita battery 4.5" grinder. I had the guard on but some sparks of metal went in my eye. I lived with it for 2 weeks before I could take it no more. I went to the Hospital with my partner and I was seen pretty much straight away. They clamped my head in a vice thing and used syringe needles to pick the fragments out of my actual eyeball. The noise of the picking/scraping was horrific.

Needless to say I still don't bother with goggles 6 months on.

[PiperCub]

^^ That's one thing I always (& I mean always) do and not just grinding jobs either, anything where there's the remotest possiblity of getting anything, particles, debris, fluids in my eyes, it's s/specs on. My dad told me stories of people he knew that had shit removed from their eyes and what it involved when he was younger - that's the reason plus I'd be fucked for work with damaged eyesight. 

[twosmoke300]

Where I worked in the past always had the big cheap goggles that steamed up all the time . As a result people hated wearing them and took risks as a result .

Now I buy my own ppe I use the plastic glasses type ones and wear them for loads of jobs . I know they don't offer quite as much protection but wearing something has to be better than nothing .

 

And yes I could have bought them when I was working for other people but that goes against the grain

[PiperCub]

That's what I use, they look like clear versions of those wrap-around sunglasses (the one's people who think they are very cool wear indoors....). Get a pair of decent ones(£7-10) they are comfortable and you'll forget you are wearing them - I often do! 

[Kiltox]

I managed to blag a pair of prescription safety glasses for £30 after smashing myself in the face with an exhaust and breaking the standard glasses I'd had for about 3 days - so much better than pissing about with goggles!

[Mally]

I worked with a guy with one eye and a patch.

Makes you remember more often.

[oldcars]

So who's going to post That pic up????????

Me this morning, typing with elbows is hard work.

[DodgeRover]

Safety glasses with the yellow lenses work well for me, they seem to make the world a happier brighter place too. That said never underestimate the sheer cunning of a piece of wood/ metal/ plastic to ricochet off several things before doing a final bounce off the inside of the safety specs and into your damn eye.

[lisbon_road]

Ear defenders too.  I never miss them - and use them when hammering something, or when my son is on skype playing games with his friends and shouting a lot - I then put the TV on at a volume I can hear.