Bluezulu49

7 hours ago, Mac102004 said:

Looks good. How do you like the 60v grinder? I got one for christmas last year and I love the thing. If they weren't so expensive I think I'd toss the rest of my corded grinders and buy more of the 60v ones lol

 

Turbo is at work so i will reply. He took a decision to change over all of his tools to battery operation about 2 years ago and went mainly with De Walt. When he unloads his van at the weekend it is almost impossible to get into the garage.  His battery tools include, chop saw, drill, torque screwdriver, circular saw with track, horizontal cutting multi tool, angle grinder, collated screwdriver ( had to look up the name, it is a the screwdriver version of a self loading gun), nail gun, jig saw and sds drill. He also has battery powered led lights and a radio which both run off drill batteries.

He will never go back to cable operated tools as he can now work on sites with no electricity and does not have to carry a big transformer for sites with electricity. 

Strangely, although mains electricity over here is 240 volt, building site tools have to be 110 volt and  big heavy yellow transformers are required for the operation of these tools. I am sure he does not miss dragging them around.

The battery angle grinder is particularly useful when fitted with 1mm cutting discs and has been borrowed on a number of occasions by our local tidy towns organisation to remove orphan chains and bicycle locks from lampposts.

However, when I wore out my old 3" angle grinder during the TRX300 refurb, he got me a mains operated one as he reckoned that a battery operated one might not be strong enough in the brake area for the abuse I would give it as I tended to run it for long periods at a time.

Hi. New member from Dublin, Ireland. My son Turbotwister  and I have just about completed the transformation of a very corroded TRX 300 from 1998, including replacement of most of the running gear. It was out for its second day of minor work today to move our duck feeders today.