Attachment to turn angle grinder into chopsaw?

[Michael Bennett]

Does anyone have one of these? It's an attachment that you bolt your 4" or 4 1/2" angle grinder into to use as a chop saw.

Do you like it? Northern Hydraulic sells them for about $25

Mike

 

[TJ Smith]

Yeah sad to say I got one.In my opinion it isn't worth the effort. If you have a vise put your steel in the vise and shape it with the grinder.I put a 8 inch cut off wheel in a table saw. That worked pretty good. I just don't like all those sparks flying around my dirty old shop
Take Care
TJ Smith
The steel gets pretty hot. I built a grinder and used the t s as a cut off saw. I'm sure you could profile knives on one. Make a wedge shaped block so that you are grinding in line with the center of the wheel.

[This message has been edited by TJ Smith (edited 03-29-2001).]

 

[R Dannemann]

Mike, saw that in the catalog. If you want a cutoff saw, save your money and look for a 14 inch on sale somewhere or a marked down customer return. The 4 1/2" grinders just don't have enough power for knife stock and their cutoff wheels don't last long for what they cost.

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ColoradoBoy

 

[DanL]

TJ, Can you use the table saw set up for rough profiling blades? Does it get the metal to hot?

 

[peter nap]

Dant, what I use most for rough profiling is a Skil saw with a metal cutting blade in it. I then clean up the profile with the angle grinder and then go to the belts. I also have a cutoff saw and a metal cutting band saw and a table saw. I keep coming back to the Skil.

 

[J. Neilson]

Sorry to say, but yes I bought a chop saw attachment for my angle grinder from Harbor Freight. Though I do like most of the items I've gotten from them, this was not one of them. Don't bother with it.

J.