chasing

[Dave_]

Alright lads,

Just bought a makita chaser and Hoover. Lovely bit of kit.

I'd love to make my life even easier and get an angle grinder to cut out holes for back boxes...

Does anybody have advice on what grinder to buy? I'd like one that can cut 35mm deep and that is quite light so I can have the Hoover in one hand and the grinder in another. I do love Bosch professional tools and see they do a 125mm diameter grinder but I'm not sure of the cutting depth.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Dave

 

[GLENNSPARK]

i just wouldn`t use 230V myself...and if and when i eventually decide to take on an apprentice of my own...i wouldn`t accept him turning up wit 230V stuff either...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

and god help him if he ever turned up with monstrosities like this:

 

[Guitarist]

230v doesn't bother me tbh, and there are no actual rules against it, just as long as there is RCD protection. I don't go on big sites who enforce this policy, because I hate working with other trades...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

230v doesn't bother me tbh, and there are no actual rules against it, just as long as there is RCD protection. I don't go on big sites who enforce this policy, because I hate working with other trades...

guitarist....nothings cast in stone mate...
i just prefer 110V...like i says...thats just me....

 

[amlu]

i got a 125mm makita grinder for back boxes. easier on the hands 1.6kilo weight, you can do precise cuts.
bit dusty only for unoccupied properties.
was 60 quid i screwfix a a month ago.

 

[PEM]

I use a worx sonic for chasing out sockets. Works great on plaster, block work and reasonable brickwork.

Blades are cheap on eBay and cuts out a double with little dust and total accuracy in less than 5 minutes.

Lot safer than an angle grinder.

 

[derek]

You can get dust shrouds for grinders that you attach a vacuum cleaner to , some are better designed than others. Some allegedly are so good you can use them in an occupied house without a problem. Saves using one hand as well.

 

[simpson93]

sds with chisel for me :>

 

[tom79bmth]

whats up with leaving it at the bottom of the stairs then...and using a 110V commando extention...otherwise your kind of defeating the object of using it in the first plaec....

I would be more worried about someone tripping over it and falling down the stairs

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I would be more worried about someone tripping over it and falling down the stairs

eh?...lol
rather than maintain safety aspects of 55V to earth....you would happily run 230V extentions upstairs....and probably site the transformer next to where your working?...
LOL...LOL...

 

[Guitarist]

guitarist....nothings cast in stone mate...
i just prefer 110V...like i says...thats just me....

After working for years with 240v, 110 and even 24v on sites, I don't really have a preference. I totally agree with 110v on busy building sites, where muppets in rigger boots treat cables with contempt, but personally in domestic I'm happy with 230v.
Each to their own, and if you intend doing the whole building site thing, then I agree that 110v is the way to go.

 

[shocking_eg]

just use the chasing machine to cut the boxes out.

unless the jobs not being plastered completely after, just use an SDS chisel.

agree with the above, angle grinder is a way too dusty

 

[robsparky1975]

makes me wonder how houses ever got wired before all these wonderful labour saving electrically powered tools were invented. for example. this is how we used to drill joists.

Sparkies must of had arms like legs in those days,do notice that those drill holes well the ones that i have seen 10/16mm at most and for obvious reasons! fair play to sparks of yesteryear before all this buy a qual/setup garbage and make £300 a day even though the person(someone who has been banned)cant do a 2 way switch came along.

 

[Silly Sausage]

re 110V:
I'm with Glenn on this one. See...
Construction - Electrical safety in buildings industry health & safety

But I suppose if you're just doing a few jobs in someone's house, I guess 230V gear is OK (with RCD protection, see the above!).
All my big gear is 110V though.

 

[Guitarist]

HSE also say that we shouldn't work off ladders, or climb about in unboarded/unlit lofts.