i dont have a belt grinder but i have a belt linisher, i wouldnt be without it, it makes light work of steel.
knowing you id say more than half of it is the making of it, there are some good home made ones on the tube, you could do some research and come up with your own game plan.
i often thought of one altho i wouldnt have the time to make one but they are a simple enough design all the same, a nice project if you have time.
what do you want to do with one?.
+1 for ToT - although he's off the boil a bit at the moment. I've now got into April Wilkerson https://www.youtube.com/user/AprilWilkersonDIY - especially with her new workshop build....that was really unfair subscribed
I rase u this old tony machining
https://www.youtube.com/user/featony
chick with guns who does know stuff
https://www.youtube.com/user/KirstenJoyWeiss
i see a few tooling bits on the bay but they sure arent afraid to open their mouth when it comes to price, looks like unless you really need something the home made version is the way to go if you can work it, still a nice machine to have about the place, best of luck with it.Not a lot with it. 2 pairs of shearing dies. Another half of a set that I'm not too sure yet what it does, could be for flaring edges.
Circle cutting/working attachment is there.
A pair of holding down attachments to stop the material from kicking up as you shear it.Going to attempt a pair of thumbnail shrinking dies out of a bit railway line.
if your interested keith fenner, tom lipton , compedge x , this old tony, keith rucker, mr pete and shandon hkw are a good watch too, altho imo fenner abom and lipton are the masters of the machine shop.26k per month ! Wow, how does the payment side work ? Is it from YouTube or?? I ve only recently got into watching those workshop and teardown videos from likes of AvE , abom, doubleboost, and that Australian guy Dave?
Interesting fellas and always something new to see with them.
Cost me about £350-400 to build if i remember rightly
that's the job, what speed motor? what diameter drive wheel?
I don't spend time on YouTube but I would think much less of some of these folk if they didn't call out the crap tools whether they were free or not. It's a moral thing.boltr's, bored of lame tool reviews.
there are pros and cons to that tho,
some of the usual suspects i do watch on the engineering/machine shop side of things have patreons as well and good luck to them i say, but i see now some of the tooling manufacturers have cottoned on to the dedicated audience with the same mindset that watch the videos and i see they are "gifting" items of tooling to the channel so as to get their name out there.
problem with that, is it comes with the unspoken clause of item appraisal when it may be cack enough stuff (not always the case mind you) but they cant say that after getting it for nowt so a good part of a video can go to marketing the said items when all you really want to see is the normal run of videos they post so the content can get skewed slightly.
I bought two on a similar deal a couple of years ago (no discs though) they seem to be ok and a good deal at that priceOur 240v 9" Erbauer grinder finally gave up after 8 years of abuse yesterday so I went shopping today.
Make sense of this:
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£118.98 for this:
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So I bought this instead for £94.98
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Ok, last week my 3/4 air impact wrench died and I need a replacement.
Mainly use it for changing sprayer and trailer wheels in the workshop so doesnt really need to be portable BUT those cordless impact wrenches that everyone seems to be able to not live without seem very tempting!
Can you talk me out of one please??
I know it’s not really a workshop tool, but picked this up from b&q yesterday.
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Now what I want to know is how can a company manufacture package and distribute a petrol strimmer for £65 (plus vat)
I’ve seen dearer spark plugs!
Used it yesterday to do the garden and I’ll admit I was very surprised at the build quality! Primed the carb and it starts first pull every time, runs smooth and the plenty of poke from the 25cc motor. Only complaint I’d have is the position of the throttle makes your arm start to ache afte prolonged use.i hope you enjoy your £65 worth
i bought a cheap,.........shack you to bits
Used it yesterday to do the garden and I’ll admit I was very surprised at the build quality! Primed the carb and it starts first pull every time, runs smooth and the plenty of poke from the 25cc motor. Only complaint I’d have is the position of the throttle makes your arm start to ache afte prolonged use.
It even came with a bush cutting blade, I’ll see how long it lasts, but it’s got a 45day b&q exchange policy and 12 months warranty so can’t complain
We have a stihl for farm/heavy use so this one is just for the garden, but a £65 and a 12 months warranty don’t think I’ll go to far wrong, I can spend more on a night in the pub!They're perfectly okay if you are only doing a little work with them - for prolonged use then a better quality unit would be advisable. Thing to watch with these cheapy units is that the carbs have a tendency to gum up & the air filters clog! If the brush blade is anything like ones I've had from B&Q then it's scrap - they don't hold an edge, besides which a cheap 25cc is unlikely to have the grunt for practical use.
Careful Phil, you'll go scaring the Yorkshire contingentWe have a stihl for farm/heavy use so this one is just for the garden, but a £65 and a 12 months warranty don’t think I’ll go to far wrong, I can spend more on a night in the pub!