TFS: The Coolest Flap Disc Grinder Hack I Ever Learned
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Need just a tiny bit more service life out of your very worn out flap disc? Try this trick! It just might help you out.
The very BEST flap discs. Companies offer to sponsor TFS with free abrasives, but I always buy these because these are the best!
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The very BEST flap discs. Companies offer to sponsor TFS with free abrasives, but I always buy these because these are the best!
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That's what I do to my grinding wheels!
That is what is called the "emergency reserve maneuver". Not designed for daily production work, but when your tit is in the wringer, it works. Well done.
Never tried the fatmax. I prefer the Walter technology (stainless steel) or just better yet use mainly metabo disks with a 3M backing pad.
Oh, & if you were using a Metabo grinder.. I would have slammed that Dewalt off the concrete for effect instead of the dead flap wheel.
What does this actually do?
The whole industry uses pferd or 3M, but, hey, who are they compared to a youtuber?
I think this is the 300 pound Gorilla AvE is always talking about.
Hahaha loool, good one
Lolol
Lots of apprentice marks on that one.
🤣😂🤣
200 years from now, AvE's grandchildren ask:
-daddy what are those brown cuts into concrete in front of that house?
AvE daddy:
- claw marks from a 300lb gorilla
My grinding skills increase everyday but only because of my lack of welding skills.
What's the old saying....?
"A grinder and paint, makes me the welder I ain't!" 😬🤣
A grinder and paint because a welder I aint.
And that, children, is why you don't smoke crack before using a grinder.
They would drug test you for running a grinder like that lol
I would drug test him for having a guard on his grinder.
@@mikefrech1123 hahahahahah for real
It would show positive on meth and probably more
😂😂😂😂
Get fired for removing a safety guard in the UK
“Go to an inconspicuous spot” ..... takes one step out the door. 😂
Thanks for this! Pro tip: I like re-shape my flap disc on my mother-in-law's driver side door panel so I don't mess up the concrete outside my house.
🤣🤣🤣 lol.
Brick or cinder block. 70¢-$2
So like use the neighbors sidewalk?
Hahaha
So you live at her house or she lives with you ?
The start looks like the apprentice trying to back up his “8 solid years” of fabrication😂
Had a guy come in the workshop saying he's been a metalworker his whole life, son starting new business, rings us the next day to ask how to tighten a gate spring, week later his son came in and said he broke his wrist from tightening said get spring.
The intro made me physically uncomfortable.
Me too. I had to quit watching
It hurt my soul.
Same
Good way to wreck grinder bearings or lose an eye from shrapnel
Don’t let this guy anywhere near your stuff he even wrecks the concrete I seen the other video where he butchered a beautiful mini Lathe
Waiting for that disc to grab his loose shirt.
Nice trick . I'll try it out on the neighbors driveway .
try his car !
😂🤣
SAVAGE
Just buy a brick or cinder block. 70¢-$2
@@icemanhunter1 That's hilarious. We must have the same neighbor, stop by for a beer.
I can hear the doctor at the ER now: "How exactly did you get shrapnel from a grinding disk in your guts again?"
Inspired by Rammstein!
I'll agree. Flap Discs have been known to come apart at 11,000 rpm and when they do, it ain't pretty. Type 27, Depressed Center Grinding Wheels may just be the least respected shop tool yet can bite very hard when abused beyond reason.
Pickup a boron wheel dressing stick and it does the same thing with messing up the floor or drive way. The boron is so tough that I have been using the same one for about 15 years and it will dress a bench grinder wheel as well. 1”X1”X6”. $5 at MSC.
Don't be a boron
Oh that beginning... when a soap opera meets a grinder.
Him ; buy a couple extra when you're running low
Me ; buy a extra brick to save the ones I got🤔
🤣
Thanks for the honesty it’s nice to see that someone can tell the truth about getting some free products.. I didn’t hear any sales pitch or even a recommendation on what disk our broke butt should buy... For those of us who don’t have sponsors the flap disk trick is pretty good also enjoy the fact that sometimes you can make a video that’s only three minutes long and it’s all right!
Every bit of the skit had me in giggles but when you climbed up to the top of the stairs to make sure there's some serious throwdown, THAT got me good.
I feel like the first 60 seconds should of been in black n white with random slows and freeze frames. Definitely infomercial material 👍
I felt like the 1st 60 seconds should have been 10 seconds.
And sped up a lil with the Benny Hill theme Yakkety Sax playing :p
Had an employee that ground like that!!! Of course we banned him from any power tools after that 😅
Right on
In the words of Al from “Tool Time”...”I don’t think that’s a very good idea Tim” lol that hack is awesome though!
Us too. The boss took the long to fire him. He munted discs at three times the speed of anybody else
Since he just had one hand, one eye and half nose ?
That's what they tell you to do on some of them. It's not a trick. Just read the flap discs sometimes. Tells you.
The start of this is like every infomercial ever😂
Run it against a 9" grinder, free wheeling. At a 45° and then turn your 4" upside down and run it again at a 45° again and at what ever angle you want you can put a sharp edge on a flapper. Way faster than concrete.
The first minute was actually a recording of how an apprentice use a grinder
My colleague used to treat the tools like this, he was stripped of his rights to any piece of machinery after that. It was too expensive, my god.....
This is a great trick I always use! Walter flap disc even have a line indicating where the maximum trim amount is.
I would say DeWalt makes a pretty good grinder if it lived through his hands
Ive killed 3 dewalt grinders in 2 years, i have a makita 18v now amd its lasting me for 3 years already
2 dewalts were corded one's, one cordless one
Try Metabo and thank me later🙃
Abusing any grinder like in this video though will destroy them regardless if they are brushless or otherwise because you can still burn up the armature and core as well as mess up the gears inside the case. I've got to where i can make even the Harbor Freight cheap crap last me for a couple years with just Brush Replacements by simply using them correctly. I've got one Brushless DeWalt ive had for a bout year now I'm trying out to see how they actually last but, ive not used them enough to be 100% sure if they are better or worse quite yet. Ive always used the ones with Brushes and in my experience you just use them properly and replace the Brushes every so often as they wear out they last.
Makita and Ryobi both also makes very good grinders as well and tend to be a touch cheaper if you shop around and same goes for them just buy replacement Brushes and they will last for many many years decades even if you dont abuse them.
@@Mr.Phoreskin you talking about the metabo that's now made in china? Don't think so.
That's such a cool hat. It seriously makes you look way cool.
That intro absolutely cracked me up! That was great! I watched it over and over again and I still laugh!
You forgot to mention the first step where you hold your breath while surrounding yourself in a cloud of concrete dust.
Tasty silica.
Bro, I totally was thinking at first this video should be called how Not to be an apprentice. Lol
Thx for the tip. Sounds like you’re a natural tv host. No pauses, no “ums”....good job
The first half of this vid brought tears 😭 to my eyes I was laughing so hard...
Neat trick to get extra life out of a disk. Could a diamond grinding wheel dresser be less aromatic to do the same as concrete?
there are some cases, specially in historic restoration that we preffer to use those used flap disks as they eat way less than new ones
Use sanding pads
@@brendanshorter5550 wtf captain wanna-be-helpfully-obvious
I always save my worn 60 grit flaps🤣
@@OprichnikStyle haha
I like it !! When I video started I was like “wtf is this guy doing w that grinder”
It's not often that a UA-cam video delivers exactly what it says it will.
And with no self promoting "fill".
You even used the hardest material to fettle. Diamond hard, hot rolled plate mild steel scale.
Succinct
Clear
Simple.
Delivered.
Thank you.
A superb job.
We always used a lathe to cut back the backing plate to give the edge of the flaps more flex for polishing out tig t joints on food grade applications....works good to just get more life out of it like this as well
A similar trick applyes if you use one of these on wood and the sap plugs up it's surface. If your wheel is thick enough you still have good sandpaper underneath the worn out one you just have to strip the face back a bit. Thanks for the video. Keep up the good work!
Yes that is a great trick. When I was working in a large shop we would do something close, we would take the flap disk over to the 40 rock pedestal grinder and reshape the edge. Please use respiratory protection. Thanks for the video.
I was waiting for your shirt to get caught and the sanding discs
Everyone has felt that intro bit
At least once a week in welding school. They charge out the ass for what was no more than a machine rental plus welding rods supplied, and the expect us to supply our own grinding discs, etc. while we're already broke from paying for their overpriced "class".
Man I wish I had just spent that money on a good Mig/Tig/Stick combo machine and learned in my garage. It'd be cheaper and I'd have a machine in the end.
For real.. like when you have a ton of grinding to do but you only have a flapdisk. Slow painful futile process.
@@WeAreTwoDoorsDown jeez man what kinda shitty welding school did you go to? That sounds horrible
*Bonus Tip:* When grinding down the disc on concrete (and any other cutting/grinding task with plastic or synthetic materials) do it where the waste can't fall, blow, wash, or be swept into stormwater drains, or soil.
Performing these tasks with a dust extractor, or even basic vacuum cleaner, or inside a workshop, prevents microplastics and other harmful material from further contaminating the environment. 🙂
Good tip, but what really pisses me off is if you consider the surface area of all the material vs how much you use its RIPOFF CENTRAL you should be able to sand/grind until you hit plastic holding it together.
I have learned to pull apart old ones and you the single squares for doing small jobs works great
Saw a video where a guy snipped off all the glazed bits and basically had a new flap wheel. I tried it and it works, but you need the right kind of scissors otherwise its slow going
Omg that's also a great tip for a tight ass like me hahaha.
Dude I was waiting for your shirt to get caught up there!!!!
Can you do a video on how to make a railing for your loft storage area?
...or a video of the future back-surgery ?🙄😏
Good video. Very funny but truthful intro. Thats the treatment my tools get when they piss me off...thanks for sharing.
Hello,
A hack I learned about soft pads emery bands/belts etc:-
Grab an old plastic grocery bag scrunch it into a ball and pass it over the running pad/sanding belt and it will clean in between the bonded grit
particles. If it's worn out it won't help,but if it's just dirty (loaded)it might just do the trick.
Be careful
I've been doing this for years, I have a sharp edge where a piece of 1/4 plate sticks out off of my bench that I just cut the plastic backing off of the disk instead of grinding it down on concrete
Lots of cool tips and tricks. Keep em coming.
That intro felt like one of those bad infomercial, “Thanks, Obama” memes. 😂
Thumbs up for the intro! Needs to be on a two hour loop
Or just learn how to use a flap disc properly.
I can reshape mine on my mother-in-law’s cooking - meatloaf, turkey, steak, you name it - she can make hard coal in an hour that puts 100 million years of mother nature’s work to shame...and still serve it cold.
I’m just kidding. It’s still smoldering when she serves it.
Really, I’m joking about the mother-in-law.
Wait, so you're saying we're never gonna run out of BBQ fuel?
That’s an awesome trick I have been cutting down 3 inch rollock Sanding discs for years to get some extra life out of them works great
A 3" becomes a 2" with a worn out set of shears!!
That’s exactly what I use 👍🤘🏻😎🚗💨💨💨💨
Crazy that the hack also stopped him handling the grinder like an absolute mad man
I always used a pedestal grinder. Standing to the side of course. And you're right, it stinks!
0:20 one problem here that I sorted on my last grinder is the guard prevents you from working near flat wearing out the end of your disc. I cut out a long narrow triangle on each open side of my guard and closed it up to taper the end. Result is I can now grind at a shallower angle.👍🇬🇧
Just like thousands of metal workers before me and against the advice of everyone I just happily remove my guards.
35 years incedent free so far.
@@hopefilledsinner3911 there's no other way haha guards are for girls
@@billhicksmcgee1181 oh please fuck off
@@Pushpin06 whatever you do, don't take the guard off, might hurt your self haha
Thanks guys I go through hundreds of these things boat building. Cheers Rossco
You are an animal on the gear!!
I've also did the same thing against a stone wheel,works a treat
Ive seen a video on YT where a guy took the time to trim the flaps one by one reveal new material beneath each one.
A great tip ! I have a box full of part worn flap discs just waiting for this...
Worn discs are great for softer materials like aluminum, or ATV plastic when this hack reaches its end. Great video-advice😎👍👊
I’ve always used an old chisel clamped down in a vise to run the edge up against. Flap disc ... it’s a love / hate relationship as they never seem to last as long as thought they would.
I've never watched a less inspiring tip vid
Cinder block works well and can also be used to knock old grit off and bring up fresh grit especially if you're using any of the newer diamond grit discs the absolutely best thing for diamond grinding and cutting discs that seem dull is to hit up a tile supply shop as most hardware stores don't carry these and ask for a diamond resin dressing block I use these on diamond blades when they seem dull it knocks off the dull stuff and brings fresh grit up to the surface so your blade is sharp again
Awesome content with great production quality and video quality. 👍🏼
🤣😅🤣😅 friggin love this channel .. intro on point 👌
I've low-key ground them down on a bench grinder also with them both spinning of course
Same
Why not use two flap discs, like when you open a bottle with another bottle
That intro was hilarious 😂
OMG! That intro killed me!!! That was awesome.
Great Tip buddy!!! Cheers from Venezuela. 🤓👍🏻
that insulation 😍.. I have that issue rn what did you use? just the foil backed fiberglass? and how did you affix it to the ceiling?
That intro is an accurate depiction of a beginner welding student.
I use flap disc's till the nut in the middle is gone! Didnt even know they came back off!
Lmao
Oh my god, that's friggen hilarious! I almost pissed myself.
That's just funny!!!😊😊😊
na man mines welded on ,,,,HAHAHA
I just glue mine on.
You almost got me... I almost thought this was legit until I seen the guard on the grinder! Nobody uses a guard with a flap disc 😜
Awesome tip!!! Love the fab series!!!
As a person who only started learning to use the grinder yesterday, I envy your confidence with a grinder shown in that intro... No matter how dangerous it looked xD
That's an awesome respirator you have over there on the bench. It's almost as cool as that beanie with a neck guard. Way to watch your six.
Thanks for all the great content
Magnificent technique ! A true artist !
I use these disks to free hand some shapes and contours on wood but you have to occasionally use a wire brush and clean off the resin build up or else they get caked up really bad but they work great on wood too.
Giving it a thumbs up. could have cut the 1st minute from the video (a bit surplus) but the rest was 100% great. Fantastic advice to get the last piece of life out of the disk. I always make sure I have a few on hand as I use these more than the grinding discs. Many thanks.
I keep a dressing stone for a grinding wheels in the old tool box. Cheap investment and works great. It works great to side dress chop saw wheels, straighten the well on a bench grinder. Great to unclog a stone used for something soft. These are just a great investment they help keep your grinding wheel from overheating caused by loading up.
Cool trick. Learned something new today.
Liked and subscribed.
I've done this many times. I keep a brick around the shop. And you can put a nice radius on it to reach a spot and grind evenly.
You need an Oz type 240Volt grinder, it sheds the disc so much faster, and throws great sparks as it melts down..
:)
I bolted a old grinding stone down to bench and use that instead of cement. Works amazing.
Cool intro man, and thanks for the tip with the discs 👍😁
introduction.. sums up a bit of those TV ad's! xD
The most important part of this was "make sure your grinder guard is on" I have lost count of the number of youtube channels (some of the big ones) that don't have the guard on while their fingers sit half an inch behind a cut of wheel waiting to slip in or the wheel shatter and throw pieces into their face!!!!!
The best flap disk I have used by far is the Diablo Steel Demon. It also screws directly to the grinder, which is another plus in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.
My man be runnin that grinder like Ray Charles!
I use a dewalt grinding and cutting grinder to make my final cuts on mason stone when I’m cleaning up the steps of the customers house. What do you recommend I do when I can’t run off to Lowe’s to grab a new blade to finish my clean round edge cuts?
use a sharp piece of steel in a vise and cut into the back of the disc. There are discs that are designed for this, but ive used the technique on pferd and others
my effectiveness needs of a disc are done WAY before they shrink in size. When I grind rust with these they load up way before burning down far enough. I wonder if this refresh would still work though.
Using a grinder like a true 'employee' right their 😂
Awesome little hack Justin great idea 👍
Great tip! Thank you!
Will this work for all flap wheels or do they have to be wheels know as ‘TRIMMABLE”? Thanks
Cool trick I seen a couple years ago I got an old broken grinder wheel I use to grind my flap wheels down (I'm cheap I use them to the last)
You can probably do it on a bench grinder or belt sander as well. I use a wire wheel on a bench grinder to re-dress cartridge rolls, it works great.
Perfect technique there!
Intro reminds of some coworkers I use to work around!! Scary!!! Lol