BOLTR: Hilti Cordless Grinder | "Never seen this before!"
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- I been using this expensive Hilti and wanted to see how the build quality stacks up to Makita, Dewalt, Milwaukee grinders. Surprisingly it IS brushless and the drive mechanism is nothing like we've seen before. It's got a brushless motor and a chinsy little coupling arrangement.
Ave please don't worry about the splatter as i wiped it off this end 🤪
It's spatter like he said not splatter
@@blairforce1755 Its splatter on his side...
BlairForce 1 betcha his phone changed it from spatter to splatter, cause that’s what mine did.
Many a good crystal were ruined by the inevitable “I’m just hitting it for a second, who needs leathers?”
juan gonzalez I got 3 kids outta that attitude
Thanks for never changing. One of only a handful of TH-camrs left who hasn’t completely changed his content and delivery due to success and changes in TH-cam’s policies and algorithms.
Thank you for being real, for being the content creator I love to learn from.
Keep up the amazing work as always and just be you. We love you just as you are, don’t change.
Haha according to sources AvE has 0 subscribers and should not be viewed by anyone. Kinda like British Columbia, the place is a complete and utter shit hole that no one should ever visit.
So true my man
T 25, great big bouncy tits! Well those ell always get a lick out me partna’ ;)
@captainzero I love his content just as much as the next guy and probably You. But the fact of the matter is that even AvE WILL change over time. That's just how things go - nobody does the same thing forever. People grow, learn new things and with that change their habits and preferences.
@@T25de : When you put it that way ...
I like how Hilti doesn't even mark the tool as brush-less. Basically saying, It's a Hilti you don't need to worry about it.
Like a Rolls.
For real, these Liechtensteiners don't mess around
@@m4554k3r 😁Yes. On a Rolls in the papers under "Horsepower" it says "sufficient"....
Snap On be like virtue signaling that their tools are 100% made in the USA
Why bother having stickers saying what it doesn't have. My tools are all gluten free. I put stickers on them saying so.
I work for these guys. The detached pinion is indeed a design choice. One of the big selling points of these grinders is the "active torque control", basically a safety feature that shuts it off should it bind on something. They work for a bit after they do bind but the thing eventually strips.
" I may not be much of a welder, but I'm a hell of a grinder !" - AvE.
Never a dull moment when it comes to AvE vocabulary and descriptions ! 😜😄
Grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't.
You've never heard that one before? 😀 We usually rib Homegamers with the classic "A Grinder and Paint for the Welder you ain't." 😝
My old weld instructor always said that a grinder and black flat spray paint makes the welder you aint!
"I'm a hell of a grinder." I didn't know you used dating apps.
A "friend" sure
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind "friend"
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind Scruff > Grindr
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind Actually, yes. I haven't gotten around to installing any of those apps on my own phone.
We went through two Milwaukee cordless grinders 4 1/2 inch in one year. Used them every day at full capacity ( misc metals trade). Bearing went on one and the other seized solid. We then bought the Hilti grinder same capacity and it's going on nearly three years now and we beat it up every day as well. Loved your video, was surprised to see how well built the Hilti grinder is.
Fun fact: Hilti is headquartered in Lichtenstein, the only major company in one of the smallest "countries" of Europe with not more than 40.000 people.
I'm old and crusty. I don't really understand this youtube comment stuff. I simply wish to say thank you for making this type of content accessible to us simpletons.
Man, a cordless grinder is one of my favorite tools. Like you said it will never replace a corded jobby, but you can walk out to the parking lot and do some actual REAL work. Even some of the nicest battery powered ones only give maybe an hour of hard work, but an hour of hard work on an angle grinder is a LOT of work.
Hilti has always provided a top notch tool ,,, especially their ramset guns, unbeatable,,,,,
Love your plan to let a craftsman work the tool! I worked in commercial steel stud and drywall for a while and know the Hilti quality is best by far!
Soft start also helps reduce shock loading to the discs, helps reduce the old OSHA vidjo look
Helps for the genius who starts the tool while touching the work piece.
Jason this sounds like total BS.
Damn, I read the title as "Hilti COFFEE Grinder". I got so excited for a second.
You can’t beat a Hilti. The old man bought a TE-17 rotary hammer drill back in the late 70s maybe 1980, and that thing has shifted more masonry than Chinese Great Wall worker. Still works. I do remember going without Christmas presents one year, this was probably the cause.
I work for a company where we use three of those angle grinders almost daily, they're heave duty stuff, we even cut concrete with those, been working flawlessly for the past 3 years. No broken parts yet, even that locking tab you said would most likely break are still intact.
I love that he added the bit about the Hilti company rep showing up in a "red shirt and a pony tail" because that has been my entire experience in 15 years with Hilti. I'm not saying it is a bad thing, but it is THE commercial sales 'model'.
The soft start is an EU directive to improve worker ergonomics. 8 hours of stopping and starting it makes a big difference for us not so strong in the wrists.
@@asbestosfibers1325 dude you're having a stroke
It's the soy
Get a new job then you weak wrist having bastard lol
Wow..
Fuckin waman’s not used the the good ol’ back and forth wrist trainin’
High-dollar research, and right out of the pocket. That's why BOLTR is the only comprehensive review source. There's only one guy in one place on the planet who will check it out and show you what you need to know.
When you're workin one-handed in the dark that soft start is so helpful, stops you giving yesself a premature nose job
Lol
yeap i use the corded hilti grinder and for that one better be ready for the kick as soon as you press
When debating on either makita or dewalt, and after watching some of your videos. I went with makita. You have the best teardown vids I've found on das interwebs. Keep it up.
Loved the Neil Young reference. "A kinder, gentler machine gun hand" Definitely a maple leafer...
I have a HILTI DCG125-S corded grinder and it’s a freaking beast!
It starts off slow like that but also has a feature they call “smart power” where the grinder automatically increases power if it starts bogging down.
I'd like to try that out but I'm in the uk, and that's a left hand drive. Not impossible but makes overtaking tricky. Keep up the great work big man.
Looks like the handle is reversible.
Another vote for posting it over the pond to team splendid
Excellent. Hilti tools are now in my sights as something to consider. Thanks for all the information and the humor, AvE. You rock, as always.
All my jobs only require 2 beers. The first and the last those ones in the middle don’t count.
You got your planning beer and your celebration beer. Work beers are a separate budget.
In Australia we have 6 practice beers before we actually start the real drinking 😆
I usually base a job on the number of beers it'll take to get it done.
The important part is that they were proper Molson pils
"It's bigger when you get it into your hand" lol...I'll have to remember that one.
Name it "Tardis" - then tell her it's so much bigger on the inside. :-)
I'd be happy to take that grinder for a spin! I work in a mattress store, so my employer probably won't be happy about it...
It would be so fun to run around NYC stealing bikes with that thing.
Many do! Though, if they are using a hilti, odds are they stole that too...
Bike people.
Louis!
BUT CAN YOU FIX AN APPLE PRODUCT WITH THE GRINDER FOR LIFE.
@Vyacheslav government
The slow start probably helps with that key thing
Makes the edges stay sharp and not roll over as quickly
Ornamental iron worker here, down in new Orleans heat , that heat sink get would some proper testing, those 22 volts of chooch would come pretty handy installing a handrails on a third floor balcony!! Spanks for the chuckles!
As a dirty dead tree carcass sculptor with some Festool products, the dust collection is second to none. And while I can’t speak to the skookumness I have been happy and dust collection is a priority.
This guy is has an awesome sense of humor and is very knowledgeable. Not a combination always easy to come by.
"Doing some grindin' and paintin'...y'know...typical welder stuff."
Good to know I've been doing it right all these years.
"A grinder and paint/ makes me the welder I ain't"
Didn't expect the slow start disapproval, just got done with the Kitchen Aid vid where you learned us to love the warm up.
I'll pass that around the chain gang like that picture of Johnny's wife, keep it real warm with all the work we're seeing lately.
That snap action is one of your best forays into the scritchy world of ASMR. I'd pay for that content.
I worked for my cousin at construction here in Austria for the last few months where we almost exclusively use hand-tools from Hilti and I must say they are great. They get thrown around and are used constantly without problems, and it's a joy to handle them, so much control, precision and strength. They are all leased from Hilti and as soon as a new model gets out we are being upgraded which is nice too. I really appreciate you reviewing them!
I got that same grinder, a hammer drill and driver plus 3 batteries and a charger - $100 out of the local pawn shop because the lowest price on their sticker for everything was $200. It was on a "closeout" table with a "up to 50% off" sign on it and a yellow closeout sticker on the price tag.
When the store manager confirmed the $100 price, I had to hold back the love explosion facial expression and just quickly ran to the register to swipe my card.
You.....got one hell of a deal!
When I checked the tags, it was in the system over 2 years. She comes out with all 3 batteries, puts them all into the tools and they fire right up. All the batteries held a charge over 2 years.
I bought them a year maybe 18 months ago and over that timespan, have charged all 3 batteries each only one time.
They were used pretty hard but they're fine, mostly cosmetic wear on it. I use the angle grinder pretty regularly for light stuff but have never fed it anything to get it hot.
I've ran the hammer drill in some concrete once with the wrong bit and it was fine even though it got warm enough to the point of being concerned so we just let it cool off. I think that was the one battery drainer.
So...I need some lotto numbers to play on Wednesday...whatcha got?
Bravo! I spend a lot of time at pawn shops looking for just such occasions. But hearing that you got yours brings a smile, though I can't tell you why.
at that kinda price, i'd be wondering where they'd been stolen from..
We got this grinder with the te 4 22a for work two years ago (electricians).
Very dirty enviroment (iron formery, lots of Metal and quarz dust) and manages it like a charm. No problem with the gear locker
That front shaft arrangement being hollow and the motor shaft going so far up in is because the one bearing there is not just the pinion bearing, but also the front motor bearing. She’s pulling double duty on ya.
Oh, and that rubber o-ring is traveling at the same rpm as both the shafts, being that they are locked together till they destructively decide to not turn in unison.
JackANSI the concern is in the heat transfer from the friction at the dingus tip down the shaft, breaking the rubber and releasing the schmoo that can cost a man more than his daily Timmies.
So glad you are fighting the good "beg the question" fight. We are few but we are (a little too) proud.
Farmer's nut rounder, called an agricultural lathe over here.
I’ve heard it called an all-16ths wrench
Left handed nut lathe
@@PlatypusVomit absolutely
@@ryanlukens9280 and a blowtorch is a true universal wrench
We call it a ‘Staffordshire Fits-All’
Howdy AvE. I work as a welder/fitter in a shop making rail cars. Currently we use Makita rat-tails of the 4.5 and 7" varieties. it's a pain in the ass to have to run extension cords up down and around all day to sand,grind, cut, and wire-wheel. I'd love to give that there Hilti a hot supper if you wanna really see what she can do!!
"Like ya do yer reyint." AvE, that was some dang convincing Murican.
Had that grinder for bout 4 years. Still working. Upgraded to the new one with the big battery. Bad ass. Get the tool- les collet thing. Love it.
“A Grinder and paint, makes me the welder I ain’t!” And my own... “Do your best and caulk the rest”
@@cm01 Angry boy
Had my hilti cordless grinder for 3 years now, use it all the time in the Millwright industry and the only trouble it’s givin me is the tabs that hold the paddle trigger in at the bottom broke and now the trigger pops out. Still works the trigger just falls out. Love the hilti cordless tools.
As an autistic viewer I appreciate the hell out of you lowering the volume when grinding/cutting and so on
as a viewer, I too appreciate it.
@@pi3ize rfcfuccu
@@coopercooper58 what
@@pi3ize my phone full glitched out 🤣
@@coopercooper58 lol I thought I was behind on the hip acronyms or something
I have OCD when it comes to my electrical componentry! 😂😂😂 i have to have my resisters, caps, leds, diodes and chips all perfectly sorted Etc! Lmao I have an O.C.A. obssesive compulsive addiction to componentry! Collecting, scrapping, building, Ect! I have since childhood! My favourite snack is bits and bites! Chips! Cap n crunch serial! I took all day friday to inventory on my thinkpad all my components! Lmao! Labour of love! I love all you,re videos! I learn alot from them to! So thank you AvE! 😎👍🏻👍🏻
Before Home Depot switched to Hilti, they were/are still carrying Bosch and Makita for the rentals. All my cordless are Bosch, other than a couple niche tools from Milfukie.
I work building residential and commercial pools..... between grinding steel, concrete and woods. We would sure give her a good testing!!!
Either way, thanks for giving me someone to enjoy watching on TH-cam and keep the great content coming!!
Yeh! 22 is 2 more than 18. 😂
It's just one more.
I think he meant 1 more cell on each row, the first and last part of that sentence never left his brain
Theres no 22v things. Theres 18 20 24
Bubba he’s using imperial counting :-)
Canadian maths
I use a Bosch 18V-60C cordless drill everyday at work and I love the thing! I smile everytime i look at it.
Awesome video. 👍
I've been using my Hilti cordless tool's in the industrial sense for around 6 years now and I must say they are second to none, and I've used them all.
I did manage to finally break the upper casing on my grinder thow- I guess they should have given instructions on how to throw it at the boss man with a bit more finesse.😡
That partial battery engagement is an incredible idea if you have to fly with tools. Airlines do not let you fly with "SPARE" batteries. They will confiscate them from your checked baggage. If you want them to go with your checked bag, you have to keep the batteries IN THE TOOLS. So now, you have the same battery as before, but now you also have the possibility of the trigger on your tool getting pushed, possibly damaging your luggage or the tool itself. The alternative is to take your batteries and put them in your carry on, which for me is nothing more than a backpack for my laptop (Very little extra room). You also now have TSA questioning you as to why you have a pile of lithium batteries in your carry on.
I've gotten to the point I will sometimes ship my batteries ahead of me to avoid this hassle. Well done Hilti for solving this. Great idea.
I'm curious how well this would last in our waterjet shop.. We've been using "team red" for some time now, and it looks like 2yrs is about all they'll suffer in our hydraulic fluid and garnet filled shop.
One of our fab guys is excellent with a grinder, the other doesn't wear any eye protection when he welds.. so figure before long we'll have a 2nd guy pretty handy with a grinder once he's gone blind and can't aim the metal hotsnot gun worth a diddly.
I have had a week long borrow of one of those grinders, absolutely fantastic machine, I don't want to give it back.
Hay Ave. I could put that tool though he'll and back for you. I work in heavy industry at a maching shop thats over 110 + years old that does all the repairs for all of the coal mines in the northern part of the States. We even do repair field jobs for over 6 large coal mines in Canada. We got guys that weld the heavy chain links that connects the big coal buckets on the dragline. Repairing where they wear. We go throw grinders like there is no tomorrow. We now are testing some of the newer brushless 110ac drills that are out there. I've seen guys push grinders so hard that there is more smoke coming out of the grinder than the smoke that comes off from stick welding. We got big welders pushing 1300 Amps burning 1/8wire putting on 1000's of pounds of steel on sheaves for the dragline. Its pretty impressive. Be glad to put some work that there tool of yours.
We managed to break one of these at work, but the wee man in the hilti van had it away 2 or 3 hours later, and it was couriered back fixed and cleaned 2.5 days later 👀
I never thought I'd pay a subscription to a tool company, but believe me that hilti care or whatever its called where you live, where there's a monthly charge for it, is the absolute dogs balls. Often if we need a big tool just for 5 mins for a quick job we ask for a 'demo', and they quite happily bring a unit out knowing that you're just saving a hire fee, because it leads to warm fuzzy feelings and more tool and battery purchases ;) that even goes as far as a massive dd-350 coring setup, something that costs hundreds to hire or requires seperate contractors
"In heavy industry, the surefire way to let the smoke out of an electric motor is to over grease it..."
Unless it's a steel mill, in which case you pack everything as right full of calcium sulphonate grease as she'll suffer to purge (and keep out) the water and scale...
I do the tool crib creeps a favor by dipping them in the pickleline before returning...
In heavy diesel, you keep greasing till only clean grease comes back out. Why? Because odds are it was supposed to have been serviced 3 times since the last service.
Same name lol
Since I started working where I work now, doing maintenance on a few different machines, and no one has been there before me to do this stuff, I just greased until the grease was falling out. There was no dirty grease in there, each machine took its own grease cartridge. Now, that I'm doing it regularly, the job is quick and easy. I think grease ever 10 hours meant grease once a year before I got there.
@@john.t645 lol did you have to use the "." because it wouldn't let you use just "John T" when you created your profile?
I like that it cranks up slow
It prevents you from rushing and slicing your hand off
I had the whole set but someone else liked it more then i did
I use the Kobalt 24V stuff professionally. Not only does it chooch flawlessly but nobody gives them a second look. Inb4 shill ok cool show me the tools you use that aren't branded
I'm a welder/fab apprentice at a structural steel shop. I've been eyeballing these cordless grinders for hole and edge deburring. It would save me time looking for an extension cord when I go to different spots in the shop or in the yard.
Take apart the festool domino tool and tell us why it’s like $1500!
@@piciu256 very few wood pixies like fesstool but the one's that do shout and scream about it.
@@piciu256 why do woodworkers need precise? it's wood. it grows and shrinks more than the kerf of any cut throughout the year
Hmmm, I was looking at getting the Festool T 18 Drill Driver, but not a good idea? I have a Hilti impact wrench, but don't really need the 22v drill and separate driver.
@@SuperAWaC because if the angles aren't precise it looks like it was made by a kindergarten class. It can shrink and expand all it wants as it will do it together.
@@jaydunbar7538 but it's wood. you work in tape measure dimensions
Good to know that there is engineering out there that's still well done. Price point will be different, but a good starting point.
1:26 Filthy wood elf? That's me!
I'm a vintage wormdrive Skilsaw man, myself.
after 30 years it still shows up to work everyday despite knowing it'll probably get a hot lunch. ;-)
Hey brotha, gotta say, been watching u for a while, got my own right proper empire of dirt. I'm a welder/iron worker in seattle. Even worked on the job that had the tower crane collapse. If u really want to test the fortitude of that hilti, I'd be more than happy to take on that burden. I even showed my 19 yr old kid ur video on goals. Keep up to good work my friend,. U put out so many public service videos u should be sponsored by PBS, if'n u know what that is up in Canadia.
You can tell by looking at my name I'm not much of a welder myself, I've put many a hard hrs on a grinder or three. Also a bit of a scumbag if I do say so myself.
You do know what hes talking about when he says that dont you? And im almost positive nobody that watches these videos actually knows what hes getting at when he says that lol. But you notice he never took that thing out of a box lol and theres quite a few tools that he does not indeed take out of the box...
I am a Metalworker and i used this grinder for a few years now and nothing broke so far. I think that weak point will actually not break because the thing is engineerded to stall farily easily. But since you are advised to not push to hard when cutting and grinding it actually teaches you quite a bit on how to grind properly and when to replace your grinding disc. Also I cut out a whole manhole cover once with this grinder and it managed it pretty easily if you dont push until it stalls too many times... only used up 2 batteries and 3 cutting discs. And it can get very hot if you just keep riding it hard.
On behalf of the wood elf community, I believe I could give this a proper hot supper and dust ingress test by way of tree carcass carving.
Hey now.
I believe he asked for someone that would give her all she could suffer, not for someone to energize chisels and whatnot with her.
Savage!
He wants a carving of a bear that way he doesn't have to keep going out to find them.
@@Nicmadis lol I guess chainsaw wheels do have the chisel bits.
@Kurt f Niessl But metal filings are both abrasive _and_ conductive. More bang for your buck - and after it goes bang, more smoke for your kopek, too. :-D
I'm a structural steel fabricator. We have fein, brushless dewalt and makita grinders. We use Hilti stamp guns to mark the beams and columns. The hilti is the only thing I haven't seen break.
Ave I’m a pipeliner (welder) in West Texas and I’ll have my dull beaver feed that thing a hot supper. He can break anything.
Do they actually have steel lines in West Texas? Last time I was there, there were a hundred plasti-steel composite pipelines by the hundreds running on the surface everywhere.
The U groove and oring on the motor driveshaft act as an insulator/damper to reduce vibration damage to the motor and allow small amounts of misalignment that can occur during the startup and stopping of higher mass wheels, or out of balance wheels in operation.
AvE's bed time stories help me sleep
Hello, your videos have been a great help for me lately, thanks for all your work!
Also: why not start a 2nd channel "BOLTR 2 : Tales from the healing bench". I'm sure it will be demonetized because of some cursing, but might be a blast for the admirers of the long-form video!
My favorite cordless grinder is the Metabo low profile. Expensive, but 4 years of use going on the original batteries and a 5 year battery warranty. It does the soft start as well
I'll gladly put it though its Paces. I Use grinders daily pretty hard in an industrial weld-fab shop.
billy morrish I used to do drainage and drain tile and used cordless grinders to cut pipe and hack cement foundations so the jackhammer can get bite at 90 degrees. I guarantee that is by far the worst abuse one of these things can take. My tool of choice used to be Makita 5” angle grinders and I would burn through three or four tools per year. I switched to Milwaukee and it took me two years to kill my first. These Hilti grinders didn’t exist at the time so I couldn’t say if this pig would last. (Mud, water, concrete dust and PVC shards are brutal, although metal dust is also savage.)
Oh, whoa... Everyone stop looking... This guys used a grinder before...
flippo2388 ummmm, what?
I worked with a lot with hilti batterie hammerdrills.
We had a big installation job (elektric ) where we can't get a cord to the place.
So one of the trainees loaded up all the chargers with batterys and brought us the fresh ones, (And we had a lot of them.)
We worked the hole day long, somthing like 10-15 batterys and head no issues.
Nice tools these hiltis! But u have to keep the batterys coming.
"Theres no accounting for some filthy wood elves taste" 😂😂
Long time viewer, first time commenter. If you haven't found a home for this beautiful puppy, I would gladly foster it for you. I'm a test enginerd for heavy civil machinery control systems. I weld brackets on for testing a couple of times a week as well as fabricobble things for 1 off procedures. Most of my grinding is removing manufacturer paint/rust and other surface prep-work.
“It’s been value enginerded into complete chintzyness” love it
7:20 Im pretty sure they have a fairly tight interference fit to secure that bearing. I also wouldn't be surprised if they put some sleeve locking compound on it. I took apart a small Eaton roots style blower for a rebuild that used that style of roller bearing to support the scroll shafts and even with the correct tool I could not extract them for the life of me.
The timing will be fine, to reverse a 3-phase motor, you must swap any two wires, when you do a 120 or 240 degree rotation you are effectively doing 2 or 4 swaps, which will cancel out, and result in the motor going the same direction anyway (any even number of swaps will cancel out).
Thanks for the video, now i just need an excuse to buy this tool.
JuanJulio Jamirez wow, you’re not creepy at all.
Trouble is you've got me hooked now I've bought a band saw and drill press this year and had them both apart . While I was in there swapped out the wiring and switch on both regards Dave from Wales
Young welder neighbor just told me that the newest DeWalt grinders have a delayed start. Burning them out left and right in the pipelines.
Soft starts never last, unfortunately a lot of grinders come with it as standard now.
Vance Graham I believe only the 60 Volt grinders do. I think the 20s still start like normal.
@Dave Micolichek Exactly! Especially when you have a gas driven power source right there.
@Dave Micolichek if you only grind a weld every 4 hours and the battery can handle at least 2 welds... That'll get u through a workday. Need more? Buy a second battery.
Until you burn up /cut/drop stuff on/trip over and hurt yourself on cords in really crappy footing areas. I don't like cordless grinders, but... They have advantages at times
i use this one for about 5-6 years (could be longer) without any failures yet and still feels like new.. its not a extreme powerful tool but you come to appreciate the precise workings of it, and it changed my angle of attack on the cutting.. (less gorilla, and more aha !! and that is better for the gorilla and the product you're working on).... ow yeah and throw away the handle, that's for working the machine, while you could let the machine do the work. And order a Quick-lock for the disks > that's a must have!
18 + 2 = 22.. It's just science!
freedom units probably
20 is full pumped 18, so 22 really is just 2 more, so it has actually 20. But pumped to 22
I work for a large rental company we use Hilti everywhere we can a major plus is you can get every part needed to repair it.
11:35 Two big *Japanese, low-ESR* capacitors, that is... Double-skookum right there!
They are flux capacitors.
I'm a tile setter. We use grinders to cut tile everyday. I just a dewalt 20v brushless now and it's a beast. Send that this way and I'll send my dewalt 20v for you to review. I've used the dewalt for nearly 2 year straight. About 300 days a year 12 hours average. In the 100 degree in the summer and 0 to 10 in the winter.
“I’ll just squint” 😂
I’m the heavy equipment and fleet mechanic for a concrete block company and I’ve been looking to get a new Makita grinder for work. Unless the yellow default I got is supposed to sound like a car crash while hitting the kachunk kachunck
Being a fleet mechanic is the bees knees. Getting paid by the hour instead of by the job, and overtime to boot!
Collin Dow that’s the truth, I got so sick of flat rate. For years I was the main diagnostic tech and it was always a hassle getting my hours billed properly. Now I get to work at my own pace (and do quality work), no service manager (just me), got a huge shop to myself, and work overtime anytime I want / need it.
Ave, I love your work! I remove and install ATM's for a living. On an average uninstall 4- 1" Hilti anchors have to be cut and that really tests a grinders stamina. I'd enjoy testing it for you! Thanks. BK
Send it to me Ave, i work above the arctic circle here in Alaska, it wont last too long here i'm sure
I’ve had 9 Milwaukee grinders replaced under warranty this year and I only use them to cut PVC pipe and a little bit of concrete cutting. Failure mode seems to be the cooling air pulling abrasive dust into the rotor and arcing out and failing.
Good feature aligning the cutting wheel and the trigger finger together
wish this would have posted a few days ago, I've got a job repairing a steel fence tomorrow. This would have been a good test of that hilti grinder!
"I'll just squint".
It was at this point a fine pilsner exited my nasal cavity at high velocity...
I work for a rental store, we have a pile of hilti demo saws. All gaulded. We run sthil and Makita