Wire Wheel on bench Grinder

DO NOT BUY WIRE WHEELS OR GRINDING WHEELS FROM FLEA-MARKET TYPE VENDORS.

I stupidly have. Including some cutoff wheels. Never mind that the blasted things don't ever fit because the arbor hole is slightly under/over sized. The things love to explode. When a wire wheel costs $20 for a good one, that $3 really isn't made well. If you're lucky, you'll just have wires flying through the air like metal rain. If you're not lucky, whole sections come lose as the unit breaks up.

The one I have is on a bench grinder. It works great that way, you can grind the edges of a piece of metal square, and then wire brush the surface to clean it. Then you can go right to the welder.

Jeff

I like the twisted wire wheels as they seam to last longer and throw less wire. They all throw wire, so a full face shield works well. Norton makes a very good one but alittle expensive. Be sure a get one thats over rated for your RPM if you can.

I was working with a guy one time that thought he'd hurt his arm at work. X-rays, several Docs and still couldn't find the problem but thought he had a hairline bone crack that the x-rays couldn't see so they casted it for couple months. 6 months later he's sittin at lunch rubbing his arm and out pops a wire off a wire wheel. It was rubbing on the bone causing the pain. As soon as the wire came out the pain stopped.

T_Bone