Was told I'd look and feel like a porcupine after using it!
Ian
much mention is made in the photo archives of 'the tool'. It apears to be everyone's best friend, but photos of the beast itself are proving
elusive.
Could someone point me in the right direction?
cheers guys
The tool for me it is the angle grinder with a rotating wire brush fitted.
be aware of bit flying about though
This'll be it.
The Tool
Gets my vote every time - keeps you on your toes when the bits start sticking in your leg too!!
Just bought one of those
Was told I'd look and feel like a porcupine after using it!
Ian
cheers for the help and health warnings!
Mark,
Just to be clear, you absolutely MUST use goggles using it.
Bear in mind bits of wire fly off at over 160 mph.
I thought I had a mutant hair growing out of my leg till I looked at it - was a piece of wire that had gone though jeans!!
Like I said if you wear nothing else, WEAR GOGGLES!!
Happy Cleaning!
ATB
Simon
I had a problem when rotary wire brushing heavily rusted parts. It took the rust off into brown dust in some areas, other areas had the apperance of being rust free but had picked up metal from the wire brush and been polished, giving the appearance of being clean. It becomes apparent when hit with chisel. I ended up grit blasting. It might be down to the quality of the brush. Anyone else had similar experience?
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'd also recomend wearing a respirator or mask of some sort, gloves and possibly ear protection of some sort. The reason
for this is a) rust is coming off the piece, and going into the atmosphere, rust, or in fact, any particulates, are not good for you at all. Looking
at the state of my respirator after a comparatively short time of bevel brushing, the surface is quite heavily coated in dirt. b) if it knocks bits of
metal off in no time, it'll knock skin and bone off in even shorter. I was wearing enormous thick leather welding gloves (thicker than I use for
welding in fact), and due to the fact that I had to remove the guard to fit the brush, at a particular angle my glove made contact with the wheel,
knocking away a not inconciderable ammount of leather. I wouldn't want to have my finger there, c) tinitus isn't pleasant and neither is hearing
loss.
Sorry for the health and safety lecture, and I know it's not the most pleasant thing wearing ten tons of protective equipment, but it's worth being
informed.
Kingr
Seconded - just blow your nose after using it to see the sh*t you've been breathing in......
i think the tool is in a thread about miserable caterham owning bastards 
atb
steve
Observational comedy Steve,
I like it
Cheers
Chris
its also a test.
is he actually reading all the posts or just winding up people in that thread?
if he posts here, then he's a saddo like he thinks the rest of us are.........
atb
steve
I've got two 'tools'. One's the wire brush version, and the other is an ultra-violent version made of evil plaited strands of much thicker wire. It
could strip the armour off a tank and is quite scary to use - I wouldn't consider not using goggles and gloves at the very least. I've not used them
for a couple of weeks, but only the other day I got stabbed in the foot by a bit of wire that hid in my shoe.
Just one thing - make sure you get nice balanced ones. I must have been unlucky with my first ones - the wire brush had quite a lot of unpleasant
vibration, but I could live with it; the ultra-violent one was so much on the wee that it nearly shook my grinder apart and was impossible to hold
for more than 30 seconds, even with thick gloves. Probably didn't do the bearings much good - lucky it's a Makita 
. I took the tool back and the
guy suggested it was maybe cos they're designed for 9" grinders which go a fair bit slower than my 4.5" grinder. I wasn't having any of that and got
a new one. It runs as smooth as a cutting wheel - well nearly. Now on my second wire brush tool and thats just as smooth. So there you go - unless
your tool shop has a good returns policy, bring your grinder to test your 'tool' - or maybe I was just very unlucky (which would be typical).
Liam
quote:
Originally posted by kingr
b) if it knocks bits of metal off in no time, it'll knock skin and bone off in even shorter. I was wearing enormous thick leather welding gloves (thicker than I use for welding in fact), and due to the fact that I had to remove the guard to fit the brush, at a particular angle my glove made contact with the wheel, knocking away a not inconciderable ammount of leather. Kingr
James,
I would have thought just turning the tool back on would have cleared bits of latex/skin from its wires?
Not clamping the disc could also have cut you a front bottom if it had slipped out, which would have been unpleasant!
Your not wrong there mark,i had a very very scary moment where THE TOOL left its machine spindle at speed
I was using my portable drill on a small clip by holding it down on the bench, next instant the 3mm drill was through my left pinky still spinning. I
pulled it out along with the finger filling and went to casualty where they told me I was lucky to have missed the bone and tendon. I was only feet
from the vice so I cannot offer any excuse for my stupidity. I use the vice now.
yours, Pete.
one of the cotractors that does alll the buildin stuff for my work was tellin me wen they were refurbhing one of the other buildings one of the guys
drilled a screw through a wooden plank and straight through his finger nail
the funny bit was wen he relised he dropped the drill and couldnt get it out and had to stand attached to this plank until the rest decided to stop
takin the wee and let him down
Ah, the fun stuff you can do to yourself with power tools eh? Worst thing I've seen is my sister cut a slot about 1/4 inch into her finger with a band
saw, makes me shudder even now.
Kingr
guy i rent shed off took his thumb off with a table saw gets paranoid wen any1 else goes to use 1
[Edited on 12/2/03 by johnston]
this thread puts a whle new take on
It cost me an arm and a leg to build
quote:
Originally posted by Mark H
James,
I would have thought just turning the tool back on would have cleared bits of latex/skin from its wires?
There's a bloke here in Melbourne, who specialises in making custom exhausts for Porsches. He has been hospitalised 3 times for huge gashes to his
inner thigh/stomach inflicted by a 4 1/2" angle grinder running a 9" cutting disc, and , needless to say, no guard.
Nice! if youv'e ever been unfortunate to nick yourself with the angle grinder,you'll know the wound is weird,almost a cross between a cut and a burn,
and for some reason they always go gammy before healing, can't imagine the pain of digging one into the gut, ooouch!
Al
Originally posted by Rorty
There's a bloke here in Melbourne, who specialises in making custom exhausts for Porsches. He has been hospitalised 3 times for huge gashes to his
inner thigh/stomach inflicted by a 4 1/2" angle grinder running a 9" cutting disc, and , needless to say, no guard.
quote:
Originally posted by johnston
guy i rent shed off took his thumb off with a table saw gets paranoid wen any1 else goes to use 1
[Edited on 12/2/03 by johnston]
Excellent way to get his point across, hope he got paid well 
[Edited on 15/2/03 by RoadkillUK]
quote:
Then, god knows why, he shows everyone the WRONG way to do it