Today I bought an inexpensive Draper angle grinder. I'm not sure if there is a correct direction of rotation for cutting.
Looking at a picture on the box, which shows the cutting of a metal bar/beam of some sort, it looks like the wheel is rotating, as it were, (at the edge furthest from the operator)from bottom of the work towards the top, rather than from the top downwards towards the bottom. In other words, if looking from a vantage point on the operators left side, the wheel seems to be moving in a clockwise direction.
The guard is pretty much in a horizontal position and the sparks are coming out the edge of the wheel nearest the operator and pointing down towards the floor.
Is there a right and wrong direction of rotation for cutting the angle iron or, in general, a metal bar? TIA.