115mm vis-a-vis 125mm grinder and discs

[difflock]

About to buy a 115mm Metabo 18V cordless anglegrinder, a 125mm is the same price as a 115mm, is there any downside?

Discs are, pro-rata the same price.

Marcus

 

[aspenarb]

3 hours ago, difflock said:

About to buy a 115mm Metabo 18V cordless anglegrinder, a 125mm is the same price as a 115mm, is there any downside?

Discs are, pro-rata the same price.

Marcus

 

 I have a dewalt 18v cordless grinder Mr flock and its not the sort of tool that would be a match for anything in the corded range. Great for occasional very small jobs like cutting wire out of a mulcher but not any good for anything that takes more than five minutes. I would have thought the 125mm range would just kill it off quicker.

 

Bob

[Matthew Storrs]

11 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

 I have a dewalt 18v cordless grinder Mr flock and its not the sort of tool that would be a match for anything in the corded range. Great for occasional very small jobs like cutting wire out of a mulcher but not any good for anything that takes more than five minutes. I would have thought the 125mm range would just kill it off quicker.

 

Bob

Precisely my experience of cordless grinders too- I have a 115mm cordless hitachi and it will gobble through a 5ah battery within a few minutes.

 

brilliant thing for convenience and wouldn’t be without it though.

[scbk]

A lot of the time 125mm discs will fit in 115mm grinders.

 

You sometimes get 125mm discs for a good price in lidl

[difflock]

I only envisage using it with the 1.0mm thick cutting discs, not power hungry grinding, but still food for thought.

I have been surprised how quick the 18V LTX Metabo drill eats a 4.0Amp Hr battery when driving a 16mm or 20mm auger bit, through 3" timbers.

[peatff]

It will only be a different size guard, the disk centres are same.

[dumper]

Buy bosch brushless and batteries last wayyyyyyy longer than others

[difflock]

Ah simply dinny rate Bosch, and thinking because we had a bad run of cordless Bosch stuff at work years ago.

Really swithered about the Milaukee brand, for their "cutting edge" brushless technology, before picking the Metabo, and cant remember exactly I picked on Metabo, but which I think must also be brushless.

Otherwise I would have probably picked the Milaukee brand.

Absolutely impressed by both the Metabo impact screwdriver and the LTX Drill mind performance wise.

Edited October 21, 2018 by difflock