/diy/ - Do It Yourself

he unironically compared cutting speed twice with power ratings all over the place, like between 5 and 13 amp model.
enough with this shill, begone from my feed

>>2592156
I never by the best anyway. If it's not cheaper than some of the major brands.

>>2592156

>>2592156
Bosch master race

>>2592166
>compared cutting speed
And? Why is the "performance at getting the job done" metric wrong in your mind? Why are you committed to marketing materials which have bigger numbers?

>>2592225
thats not even on there the right way.

>>2592156
Le raging faggot face with soulless automated replies

>>2592266
Yet Ridgid still took #2 while being 1/3 the price of the Makita and having a better warranty!

>>2592166
I agree. Ridgid would be #1 if it were a fair test!

>>2592166
It took you THIS LONG to filter this hack?
Come on anon, should have done this over a year ago.

>>2592156
metabo is garbage and I dont need some whosits telling me so. Germans are just riding their reputation all the way down.

Dammit i needed this about a month ago before buying some grinders...

Rigid seems to be the best bang for the buck in the ones he tested.

>>2592404
That test is goofy, he tests a lot of grinders that aren’t really in the same class. People who know what they’re doing aren’t going to get a skinny light <4A grinder and expect it to do the work of some >7A heavy duty grinder. Even though they’re all 4.5”, there’s a difference between running a thin cutoff wheel and leaning into the thing with a diamond cup for hours on end.

>>2592409
^This. Just find out what fitters and welders rely on.

>>2592156
Why make a video testing all those bullshit grinders when instead you could make a video of cutting them in half with pic related?

>>2592409
Yes i understand the entire test was flawed, but you can still take away some info from it. Imho a 7 amp grinder is still a small light duty grinder anything less than that doesn't even deserve to be called a grinder. 11amp is where you get into the heavier 4.5" grinders. The rigid seemed like a beast for its amperage rating and price point.

I wish he would have included some of harbor freight's better grinders like the bauer and hercules.

OK, so when's some bored /diy/er gonna be the guinea to replace project fart and do it "properly"? Is there someone out there already? Or should I just buy two or three different tools and return all but one like the old days?

>>2592459
Nah he should test 7 more knockoff Chinese Amazon brands!

>>2592514
Not worth it. People will still complain it was wrong when their team didn’t win.

Dude gives it an honest effort, I don’t have too many complaints aside from sometimes he has way too much Amazon crap and doesn’t do the common brands you would find at Home Depot or Lowe’s.

>>2592514
Welding forums exist, post and ask. Or buy the Makita below which serves my welding and cutting tasks nicely though I've many other grinders.

>>2592436
I've had its brother

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003S3SOUO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

for several years. I've never seen a bad Makita angle grinder going back to their cast aluminum models which were Black and Decker Wildcat tier.

These little niggers are hard to kill

>>2592390
I thought Metabo in the states was just rebranded hitachi

i use one of these
a bit big for some things, but i use it with wire wheel after welding, for cutting all-thread, and flap-disking rust

>>2592815
What's up with your floor? I need details

>>2592409
>ryobi burns up
>"the test was goofy"

Pooryobi strikes again!

>>2592781
Nah I fell for the meme and got some legit made in germany stuff. Their supposedly beefy die grinder has tons of runout and flexes when youre using it like a cheap chinese-made dremel.
Their cordless drill has the world's dumbest drill chuck attachment method, with so much runout (even for a handheld drill) that it is impossible to drill a hole in mild steel straight even with a pilot hole or punch mark. The abused chinese milwaukees at work are way better in every respect.

>>2592852
I’m good with my Ridgid and ol’ Craftsman Pro.

>buy shitty warrior hf brand one for $15
>use the fuck out of it on all sorts of stuff over a period of around 5 years
>it just dies one day when I plug it in
>go spend another $15

At this rate I'll be dead before it would justify buying anything more expensive. The cutting speed on some of those more expensive ones is nice, but if you aren't cutting 80 rebars in a row there's no need.

>>2593380
Might have a rectifier in it that got burnt out with arcing. I fixed mine for about a dollar.

>>2592781
We have both true Metabo and HPT Hitachi Pro Tool.

>>2592927
That sucks. I got their SDS Plus drill and it has been legit.

>Can the ovens in Auscwitz really incinerate 6 million jews?
>We're going to test that!

>>2593853
not all of them were disposed of in ovens

>>2592815
Why do you need a huge grinder like that for a wire wheel? Wire wheels are the best use case for cheap small grinders because they don't need much power.

>>2593864
For big jobs they work great. I use a 9" grinder driving similar wheels to strip coating from my steel shop roof. Baby wheels on baby grinders won't do that at any reasonable speed. I have those too aplenty.

>>2592828
Looks like multiple layers of cheap ass vinyl tile.

>>2593864
>Wire wheels are the best use case for cheap small grinders because they don't need much power.

You've obviously never really hogged on something with a wire wheel... They can take a lot of power to keep going if you're bearing down on it.

>>2593863
>not all of them were disposed of in ovens
Cool. So we can count the contents of mass graves. How many have we dug up so far, that the victims might receive a proper burial -- perhaps even in the Promised Land?
...
Wait, none?
How is that possible? The Germans kept copious records. It's how we learned about the six gorrilion in the first place. You're telling me they kept shoes but didn't put an X on a map to say "here lies a bunch of dead jews make sure not to dig a well here!"

>>2593864
wire wheel isn't the demanding thing i use it for, just nice that it can take a huge wire wheel
the demanding thing: using a 9" cut off wheel on all-thread/steel stock since my bandsaw is fucked up, and using a 7-9" grinding wheel on bad welds

plus it's nice to have one do-it-all grinder

>>2594016
Why do you think they are passing more and more laws that make it a major punishable fine and jail time if you even QUESTION it?

>>2592156
We all call them metabos even though I've never seen anyone actually using them. Most of the skytraks I see are JLG and most of the jlgs I see are Genie. My qtips say CVS

>>2595417
So. Much. This.

>>2593933
>if you're bearing down on it.
which you're best advised to not do/do lightly

>>2595417
What about a little film evidence? https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn616441

I went on a little shopping spree 2-3 years back.

I was looking for a hammer drill, a jigsaw, a cordless drill, a high speed battery powered lightweight drill, and an oscillating tool.
I ended up buying mostly metabo. The reason why I "discovered" Metabo was the small, high speed battery drill.

https://www.metabo.com/us/enus/tools/cordless-tools/screwing-drilling-chiseling-stirring/cordless-drills/be-18-ltx-6-600261890-cordless-drill.html

It's called BE 18 LTX 6, it runs at up to 5000 RPM, it's small and light.
The intended target market is the metalworking industry and drilling small holes for rivets. The advertised max diameter in steel is 6mm.
I mostly use it for woodworking to pre-drill small holes for wood screws. I hate swapping between a 2-3mm drilll bit and a screw bit holder, so I end up using 2 tools in parallel switching between them, and this seemed perfect.
Well it is perfect. Nobody else makes this, idk why, it's a genius little tool.
Since it targets the metal industry it's well made too, the chuck ratchets into place and no drill bit will ever slip from it.

I then was looking for a hammer drill, and I didn't have a proper big corded drill anyways, so I wanted something that can do both - and discovered that basically only Metabo solved this.
They sell "Multihammers" which have 4 functions: Drilling at 2 speeds, hammering, and hammer drilling.
Additionally the chuck has a quick connect system and the drill comes with an SDS-Plus chuck and a regular chuck, and since you have a proper gearbox to shift speeds it's basically the most universal drill you can imagine.

Since I already got the 18V Batteries for the one drill, I decided to buy their cordless drill and jigsaw, too and i'm super happy with all of them. The short brushless quick connect drilll fits everywhere to assemble furniture and weights nearly nothing without the chuck, yet can drive a 6x180mm wood screw without complaint.

Really impressed with Metabo currently.