RE: Harbor Freight Drill

[Bob La Londe]

I was just thinking along the same lines. I've got four angle grinders hanging on the wall. One of them is a Harbor Fright with a wire brush mounted on it.

[Lew Hodgett]

Update:

In my mailbox today was a flyer from HF.

$12.99 gets the 3/8" drill.

Also, for those interested, $9,99 gets the right angle sander/grinder.

When it cools down, it will be time for a trip to HF.

Thk's everybody.

Lew

[Lew Hodgett]

----------------------------------------------- I am VERY familar with the $9.99 special, right angle sander/grinder.

Took me less than 4 hours to totally destroy one when I was building the boat.

24 grit, 4" discs play hell with the machinery, especially when you are sanding fiberglass.

If I truly needed a long term sander/grinder today, it would be a Milwaukee.

Destroyed every other one I tried including Makita.

Only repairs ever made to one was to replace a switch and a couple of sets of brushes.

Best $100 I ever spent for a tool.

Today, don't need that quality.

It's a matter of matching the brush to the application and then matching the tool to the brush.

That starts with a nylon brush operating around 450 RPM.

As far as duty cycle is concerned, 15-20 minutes, twice a week is about as heavy at it will get.

Lew

Lew

[Lew Hodgett]

--------------------------------------------- Built one and use it.

Posted pics at the time.

Lew

[woodchucker]

How'd it work? Too much effort? Not clean enough?

Where's your review in retrospect...??? Not after you built it. Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

[Lew Hodgett]

--------------------------------------------- Lew Hodgett wrote:

------------------------------------------------ "woodchucker" wrote:

---------------------------------------------- Posted pics, got no response thus review complete.

Works well on a welded round rod grill grate; however, I'm using it on a cast iron, porcelain coated, grill grate.

Since it is a casting, draft angles come into play which is why I'm going to investigate the nylon brush concept.

A triangular cross section is not a round cross section.

Lew

[Puckdropper]

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:53754cc4$0$50608 $c3e8da3$ [e-mail]:

I got a magazine with a 25% HF coupon. Might be worth looking around and seeing if you can find one of those. (It was a Home Shop Machinist magazine, issue before the current one. The current one has a free multimeter coupon.)

Since my local store doesn't require the coupon to be clipped out, I've used the 25% coupon multiple times. It's almost paid for the magazine subscription. (I didn't subscribe for the coupons, just a nice bonus.)

Puckdropper

[woodchucker]

Hmmm. I have a weber with porcelain grates. There is a good draft angle on mine I believe. It's pouring now, so I am not going to check.

I'll have to give it a try.

What kind of wood did you use?

[woodchucker]

mine are triangular as well. Are you saying they are not good for this? Seems like they would be, you just have to get the piece burned all the way.

[Lew Hodgett]

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red oak.

The gates of hell will rust shut before the grate contour gets burned into the wood.

Used a saber saw to remove most of the waste that would have burned, then burned final surface to fit.

Lew

[woodchucker]

:-p