For Monica, small Proxxon 2" electric angle grinder

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I tried to post this as a reply to your topic on compressors, dealing with grinders, but both replies got lost.Anyways, Proxxon makes a very nice, small electric angle grinder, about the size of a Dremel die grinder, that takes 2" grinding discs.  It's a very nice quality tool and easy to hold. Has a long neck on it to get into tight areas and slim body to use with one hand.  Cost about $150.http://www.proxxontools.com/store/pc...2&idproduct=18MM350P/Python/Q300MM175/Q300DialarcHFHTP MIG200PowCon300SMHypertherm380ThermalArc185Purox oaF350CrewCab4x4LoadNGo utilitybedBobcat250XMT304/Optima/SpoolmaticSuitcase12RC/Q300Suitcase8RC/Q400Passport/Q300Smith op
Reply:Thanks!  I ran across that a while back in a post and I couldn't remember where I found it or the name.Does that thing get hot under use?Last edited by Monica; 09-22-2010 at 12:05 PM.Lincoln AC225 and CartLincoln WeldPak HD and CartOne hand
Reply:I don't know how hot it gets.  I played with it for maybe 30 seconds at the tool store demo display one day and didnt have the money to buy it at the time.  I wish I could have bought it then, as the tool store went out of business and no one else around here sells them.MM350P/Python/Q300MM175/Q300DialarcHFHTP MIG200PowCon300SMHypertherm380ThermalArc185Purox oaF350CrewCab4x4LoadNGo utilitybedBobcat250XMT304/Optima/SpoolmaticSuitcase12RC/Q300Suitcase8RC/Q400Passport/Q300Smith op
Reply:Ok.Looking online a little more I only found one thread where a guy said he used it but longterm he was unimpressed.  He did say it would get pretty hot.  Which is what I'm figuring is going to be the case with any small electric rotary tool.I need to get my buns in gear - winter's coming and I still gotta get my firewood stacked on a non-existent rack!   Lincoln AC225 and CartLincoln WeldPak HD and CartOne hand
Reply:On that note, here's an idea for a log rack (I made one for myself years ago) if you can weld aluminum.Take a really cheap aluminum extension ladder (I got something in the neighborhood of a 28 footer round-rung junker at a garage sale for under 10 bucks).  Preferably use you wouldn't trust standing on (because who wants to waste a good ladder?).Use the ladder frame to form the two rails that keep your logs off the ground.  Then cut one end at a 45 degree miter and weld the cut half back on at 90 degrees (making an L).One extension ladder makes two L's.Now, each side of the ladder is spaced so that they fit into each other, and so you can just slip the bottom of one L into the other, and add a couple of screws so it doesn't separate in the middle, and you've got a straight rack that holds a cord.  I'll never rust or rot either.
Reply:Thanks for the idea.  Unfortunately I can't weld aluminum.  I can barely weld steel boogers   I've been planning on some steel square tubing.  I need a couple racks so might as well make em all match.  Around here racks start at $100 and go up.Lincoln AC225 and CartLincoln WeldPak HD and CartOne hand
Reply:Monica,I don't know how hot that electric die grinder gets, but I do know that my air-powered 3inch cut-off tool (which is basically just an air-powered straight die grinder with a shield and a different collet/shaft) and my 90-degree air-powered die grinder get C-O-L-D with just a few minutes use.Cold as in almost too cold to hold onto.  In just a few short minutes use.Not a 90 degree tool, but maybe for some of your possible uses it could work?  Looks like it could be held with one hand.  And it's only $30, on sale (which it is on sale for 'now').http://www.harborfreight.com/electri...aft-44141.htmlIt's rated at 500 watts, where as the Proxxon is rated at 100 watts.  100 watts is only about as powerful as the plug-in Dremel tools.  Hmmm, actually it looks like the most recent plug-in Dremel is -more- powerful than the Proxxon, at 1.6 amps (that would be 190 watts) versus the Proxxon's 100 watts.http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Tools/Pa....aspx?pid=4000And that a nominal 5.4 cfm compressor can NOT keep up with even those little air tools on a sustained basis.  And at least one of them (I don't remember which one, I think it may have been the cut-off tool) was labeled/rated as only needing 2 cfm!  Based on the behaviour, I -know- that the so-called "2 cfm" rating is one based on the intermittent usage factoring of like 15 seconds of use and then the a minute off, etc.Air tools can get c-o-l-d in use.  Even in Texas heat, a metal-bodied air tool could get really-really-really-really cold if used for more than just a short burst.  The best laid schemes ... Gang oft agley ...
Reply:Thanks Moon.  Having used my Dremel with a grinding stone, it gets too hot to use as well.  I guess though between hot and cold, it's six of one, half dozen of the other.  On the straight die grinders I wonder which way the spindle turns?Lincoln AC225 and CartLincoln WeldPak HD and CartOne hand
Reply:clockwise
Reply:Thanks!Dremel goes counter clockwise.  I get junk throw in my face the way I hold it and I vowed to not buy something else that did the same..Lincoln AC225 and CartLincoln WeldPak HD and CartOne hand
Reply:Originally Posted by MonicaThanks Moon.  Having used my Dremel with a grinding stone, it gets too hot to use as well.  I guess though between hot and cold, it's six of one, half dozen of the other.  On the straight die grinders I wonder which way the spindle turns?
Reply:Oop, yup, viewing from the shaft end, counter clockwise.  I hold the  tool as you describe so I can see the work.Lincoln AC225 and CartLincoln WeldPak HD and CartOne hand