My Sears die grinder has given up the ghost after about 6 yrs of pure abuse.

They must run on smoke 'cause when the smoke came out of it, it stopped working.

Has anyone bought one of these offshore die grinders that are on ebay.....?
Any good?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=20778

 

I'm ashamed to admit it but, yeah, I bought one.

Put the stone in it, turned it on, the end flew off the grinder it wobbled so bad. Ok, go out to garage, get one of my good stones, put the end back on the grinder, put in my good stone, turned it on. Vibrated still but not as bad. Tip didn't fly off again!

Started testing in on a piece of metal in the basement. About 15 seconds later, all the smoke came out of it, just like yours!

Left feedback, Said it was junk. The responded it was under warrenty. Wasn't worth shipping back.

I may have salvaged the cord off of it because I'm such a pack rat!
Oh, and it came with a spare set of brushes too!

Now you know. . .

HTH!

 

never used any eletric die grinders, but i've used a lot of 40-50 dollar range air powered die grinders with good results. i can buy i-r die grinders at big car show here for 45 dollars work great and last a long time

 

I went to Home Depot today and found onet that was about $25.00. The brand was "Husky".

 

correct me if im wrong, but isnt that thing the same thing as a dremel?

 

Die grinders have a ton more torque then dremels. Try to port iron heads with a dremel and it will take you twice the time.

 

Buy a Sioux or CP air die grinder

 

dremels are weak as hell... Even for a small die grinder. I wouldnt buy that grinder either. Its just not name brand. I bought a non-name brand 1/4 impact drill for a few bucks to drill some holes in concrete. The drill only made it around about three times before it just burst into flames and died. Moral of the story, buy name brand. I bought a dewalt and finished the job with that.

 

Receievd my Makita 1/4in electric the other day, did some test runs on some stuff...plenty of power, adjustable speed, etc.


Easy as using a IR/CP pnuematic etc.

Price was 93.00 from use-enco.com...free shipping thru Sept.

Only thing, I wish they made a right angle one. It probably won't get the use of that my airtools get, but it sure comes in handy and smooth running even with my 6inch bits.

Ofcourse the price is higher than what you're looking at, but Makita is known quality, should last much longer.

 

The Makita look like a good deal. So does the Dewalt for $160.

I got Sears (Canada) looking for a Craftsman for me. They are no longer sold in the retail stores, but are in the Industrial catalog.

Going to wait and see what theu come up with and go from there.

 

i bought one for $1 in an ebay auction,then paid $18 for shipping.
never used it...still in the box...lol

 

most husky tools have the same warrenty as craftsman.... they're good tools

 

I picked up one of those grinders off ebay too, what a POS. It weighs about as much as a wormdrive skilsaw except without the power, I figured $12.50 shipped with 10 free stones it was worth it if only for the stones.
Anyway after that failed experiment I got a nice new Makita adjustable speed grinder 1000-9000rpm or something like that, rips through iron like nothing. MUCH better than those high speed grinders that once you apply load to them they go down to nothing and smell of electrical fire. I'd say get a low speed Makita for porting and use that POS 24000rpm junk for polishing, but 9000rpm did the job flawlessly for me. $100 for an electric is cheaper than $400 for a GOOD compressor plus tools if you don't plan on using it a lot.

 

Inwo: are you using high speed carbide burrs or stones?

 

I would avoid any air powered die grinders unless you have a real good compressor. They consume around 8 or 9 cfm of air which is alot more than most little garage compressors are capable of producing. It will run like hell for 30 seconds and then slow down and the compressor will run constantly.

If you buy a $25 Husky electric die grinder you will get just that, a $25 die grinder. Makita, DeWalt, Milwaukie, and some others I can't think of are good quality. I would say that where you are porting heads and such that a good quality grinder is the only way to go.

 

i picked up a craftsman electric grinder on one of the craftsman club weekends, paid like $75 it will chew threw cast iron heads like a champ i've been very happy with it. i would avoid a cheapy myself, it might work for 1 set of heads, but who knows what it will do on set #2

 

Dewey316- When did you pick up that Craftsman electric die grinder? I just checked their website and they didn't have any one listed on it...which is odd cause I swore I have seen it there before.

 

Yeah but my little garage compressor is a 80 gallon

 

Then that wouldn't really be a little garage compressor now would it?