Electric Tools

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Love all the talk.

Thanks to those generous and brave souls who came to visit me in the dunce's
corner.  William Moore, very scary, and with a guard!  It is helpful to hear
such tales.  Simon don't hold back.  Stacy what a repertoire of tools!   At
the risk of revealing more of my ignorance I will attempt to correct you in
your use of the term bushings.  I tread on eggshells here, but I would
suggest you are referring to brushes.  Geri there in history have been such
things as quiet compressors.  The old Kellogg that ran the lift in the town
filling station just made a whish-glug whish-glug sound.  It was auctioned
off for $300 recently.

Perhaps there is a modern compressor that quiet and it would not be my
Curtis.  I believe one company Eaton brags on the slowness of it's RPMs, but
I have not heard one. I have attached the 9-inch guard to my 4.5.  It ruins
some of the lightness I had going, but I think I can handle it.

I do feel that perhaps the 15-amp 9-inch grinder is more than you need to
turn a 9-inch blade.  I felt I had been going through diamond much too fast
with the 9 inch and I think with the 4.5 I am not so heavy into the stone.
I feel my diamond is lasting better.  It is a great asset in any application
to be able to turn the speed down.  I am ordering sandpaper this morning off
the Internet; one third of what I have been paying at MSC industrial supply
or the auto parts store.   Hope it's decent.  Great marble in Sylacauga,
Alabama, I think.    Clive I am thinking about your thesis about
availability of material.  It is intriguing and intoxicating to that
material=inspiration.

But it is a wild and uncontrolled inspiration.  As spring burgeons and
material of all description declares it's vivid availability, nowhere in all
that whispering music is there any mention of grinder guards!

Bill Knight