Angle Grinder Hack! Don't Throw Away the old Angle Grinder!

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My first thought was, why the hell would I do that when I could get one for less than 20 bucks. Then I thought to myself, I just sat here and watched this whole video and it has 2.2 million views. Well played sir...well played.

So even though it can be used again it has a much smaller motor now with a real chance of catching fire, well done.

Yeah! No. Got it, only the foolish mock the reaper. I felt my IQ drop watching this.

For someone who fix something that was broken, with stuff you had laying around, I think you did a fantastic job. For something that was broken , and now works, I think you hit the nail on the head.And if you need to upgrade it, I’m sure you will. Keep up the good work.

I had a lot of old pipes and rebar to cut up and from what I read youtube.com/post/UgkxPDBfLu68o58Aw85O_J-zIFfjJARBh… this would be the tool for the job. Since I had never used one, I watched a couple of youtube videos and I'm so glad I did. Some really good safety tips, which I followed, and this tool did a splendid job. One good thing to know is the weight of the tool puts just about the right amount of pressure on the metal I was cutting, so I didn't have to use a lot of pressure, which is more likely to jam the tool. It made fast work of my job.

That was a very clever troll video. I realised what you were making after just a couple of minutes, yet you kept me watching until the end because surely there would be more at the end.

Very good experiment. You succeeded. All the best. Keep doing more. This tool will be very useful in emergency situations. It's better to use it like this than throwing it in trash can. Spending money in replacing the internal parts like motor is very expensive. It's a good try. You have succeeded. Don't listen to the looser's words, they don't know what to do, how to do. Even if they know rocket science, they will simply eat and comment others. Don't listen to them. Do whatever you like. You are born to live your life.

LOVE THE GUARD on YOUR GRINDER .......... BRILLIANT !!!

С такими оборотами пластилин только пилить, да и ножовкой быстрее будет, чем на видео шпильку грыз этой "болгаркой"

Я один вижу. что отверстие просверлено не по центру? И что ножовой можно распилить болт быстрее?

WHAT was the point in that? Was the original armature screwed? The replacement motor is WAY underpowered for the job though! An angle grinder should run from around 10000 to 16000 rpm. That motor sounded like it was barely making 3000! BAD move!

This should be titled 'Take a weekend off and build an angle grinder'.

7mins of my life I ain’t getting back

You've not only wasted your own time sir you've also managed to waste all of our time as well.

This video is a representation of your life.

There IS a reason a side grinder, 4" or 9" version, has a small pinion gear driving a large ring gear. The reason is the necessarily small motor, (especially in a 4" grinder, which most people think are a direct replacement for 9" grinder. They are NOT.), needs to gain some RPMs, so it will have some torque. The gear ratio enhances torque, as well. If the manufacturers could get away with direct driving them, they would, since it would be so much cheaper. You have resurrected a good little Bosch side grinder as an underpowered shadow of it's former self. I did come up with a much better use for part of the side grinder, though. The part was the output shaft of a 4" side grinder I killed a few years ago. I don't know the brand of the shit-brown grinder, I found it in the trunk of a car at the wrecking yard, and they gave it to me when I paid for my car parts. It lasted almost a year, but it didn't have a spanner nut like most grinders, it had a large cup washer, and nut; like a bench grinder would. A few months ago, I bought one of those cubic manmade superstone grinding wheels, (hard enough to grind carbide), from China via eBay. The problem was, I needed an arbor for it. I planned turning one from round stock, but looking in my 'inventory' for a nut and washers to use, I ran across a couple of output shafts from dead side grinders. Because of the nut and washers, I first thought it WAS part of a bench grinder, then I recalled tearing apart a couple of 4" grinders I had smoked one day, because I wasn't up for wrestling with my 9" side grinder, but there was stone needing to be polished. I got it done, but I was down to my last 4" grinder, (and I've been hesitant to get it out, since!), though do still have the 4" air side grinder. After checking then for runout, I ended up using the side grinder output shaft as the basis for an arbor. They are good, tough alloy, but still machine easily. I turned the gear end of the shaft down to ½", then turned a bushing for the ⅝" shaft and 20mm grinding wheel. In the end, it was a much easier project to use the output shaft, than to re-invent the wheel, making one from scratch.

Amazing, old angel grinder become useful

pretty good hack my man . i guess a motor w/more power is even better

Good job! Thank you for video!!!