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Angle grinder

Post by Newtomud » Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:21 pm

A while back there was a thread where Twiss was saying he needed a new angle grinder and he didn't want to pay fortunes for it... I recommended going to argos to get a cheapie grinder(about£17.99) and buying the insurance they sell (something I've never done in the past)..
Well.. The insurance(£5.99 for three years) was worth it because I killed the first grinder then killed it's replacement and today I picked up my third grinder ..Free..No questions asked.
Wonder how many grinders I can go throu in three years :?: :hack:

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Re: Angle grinder

Post by turbo-tom » Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:13 pm

haha so that the £5.99 warranty well spent then! , the things with tools is that they say, if you pay cheap you you pay more , and if you by expensive you pay less , something like that anyway :lol: :lol:

speaking of which i need to sort my grinder out because the switch is stuck on the on postion :lol:
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Re: Angle grinder

Post by twiss » Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:46 am

Well I gave up looking for a cheap grinder...
my mate left his round my house and then moved 2 counties away so I've sort of adopted it now ;)
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Re: Angle grinder

Post by ScottieJ » Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:03 pm

I bought a £40 one from B&Q, it comes with a 3 year warrantee but so far its taken all the abuse ive thrown at it!
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Re: Angle grinder

Post by Newtomud » Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:23 pm

turbo-tom wrote:haha so that the £5.99 warranty well spent then! , the things with tools is that they say, if you pay cheap you you pay more , and if you by expensive you pay less , something like that anyway :lol: :lol:

speaking of which i need to sort my grinder out because the switch is stuck on the on postion :lol:
I totally agree, cheap tools are usually rubbish but, if you're doing a one off job or on a budget then ?
Funny thing is every time I take the grinder back they give me a newly dated receipt..Wonder if the three years starts again from the new date?

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Re: Angle grinder

Post by turbo-tom » Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:57 pm

Newtomud wrote:
turbo-tom wrote:haha so that the £5.99 warranty well spent then! , the things with tools is that they say, if you pay cheap you you pay more , and if you by expensive you pay less , something like that anyway :lol: :lol:

speaking of which i need to sort my grinder out because the switch is stuck on the on postion :lol:
I totally agree, cheap tools are usually rubbish but, if you're doing a one off job or on a budget then ?
Funny thing is every time I take the grinder back they give me a newly dated receipt..Wonder if the three years starts again from the new date?
yeah i bought a cheap 4inch hole saw for about 4 pound to do my exhaust , but the teeth on the saw just desoveled and scratch the paint wor, so i bit the bullet and spend £14 ona decent one and got the job done in about 30 seconds :lol:

and that would be great if it did ;)
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Re: Angle grinder

Post by Team Pink » Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:35 pm

turbo-tom wrote:
Newtomud wrote:
yeah i bought a cheap 4inch hole saw for about 4 pound to do my exhaust , but the teeth on the saw just desoveled and scratch the paint wor, so i bit the bullet and spend £14 ona decent one and got the job done in about 30 seconds :lol:

and that would be great if it did ;)
Best place to buy hole saws is off e-bay, look for Starret saws, IMHO about the best. I recently bought a job lot of 11 for £14, included an arbour as well.

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Re: Angle grinder

Post by turbo-tom » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:40 pm

ohrite cheers for that tim , i normally stick with dewalt , makita , snap on , blue point tools , but i spoze it dont hurt change :lol:
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Re: Angle grinder

Post by Vitara brown » Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:54 am

Never bought one just borrow them from work with discs and forget to return they come with life time guaranty swap when well used and abused. lol

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Re: Angle grinder

Post by twiss » Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:11 pm

Holy thread revival!
My borrowed angle grinder is still going well!
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