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In the past, my dewalt died after a lot of hard work and abuse. I was excited to get this die grinder because I had used my dewalt for hours and hours of nonstop grinding in the summer. When I moved to the air, I missed having something that was easy to move with electricity, so I looked around. It looked like most people preferred makita to bosh, so I took a chance and bought one.
When I first saw the switch, I didn’t like it. I thought I could lock it in place, and how dangerous can a die grinder be, especially when it’s in a 1/2-inch drill? “The steel race.
When I used it for the first time, I used a carbide burr for 30 seconds to smooth out the edges of an exhaust pipe. I’ve been using the burrs for two years now at 30,000RPM in an air grinder. Very little work. did a great job, was very easy. In no way does that compare to what my dewalt could do.
After a few days, I used it again to ream out a bolt hole. Regular a36 steel, but only 1/2 of an inch thick “Making a hole into a slot. There’s a rough feel to the tool when I turn it. It’s been smoothed. I thought so. All was well after I cleaned my hole. Used the same burr.
Third time. Same burr. Speed can be changed. I didn’t know this could be done, but now I know it can. This is the third time I’ve used it at a speed of 5. I thought, “Let’s start slow,” and I took it down to 2 or 3. I can’t remember which. The tool didn’t have a soft start. The tool vibrated like a normal die grinder would have vibrated, but it was loud. The tool seemed to spin faster than it did at full speed. There was a burr that I’ve used many times on air die grinders at 30,000 rpm, but the tool somehow took it and vibrated/span it. It bent the shaft 90 degrees, hit my other hand’s finger without me noticing, and was a death trap. Die grinder tooling with a 90 degree deathtrap tooling was stuck in the switch, so I had to reach for the cord while my coworker called me a dumbass because I didn’t know how a die grinder could bend steel into a 90-degree angle.
Some people might think that the tooling was bad. was already bent, or something else. No, it was straight. If I had to guess, I’d say I spent about 35 hours light grinding on this bit. I haven’t pushed too hard on the bit to bend the shaft because the carbide was still sharp.
Some people might say that you broke the grinder. It was used for a minute. It had never been opened when I got it. Afterward, I put it back in the box it came in and parked my truck on the floor under the seat where there was nothing on it and it didn’t move around. I did this for the first two times.
Unbalanced tools can bend steel shafts by vibration and rotation, but I didn’t expect it to happen at all. When the bit went from no run out to a wild nunchuck in a split second.
I also have some other light-duty Makita lithium tools that I can use for small jobs. In fact, I have a lot of different brands. They’re all light-duty, but they get a lot of use. It was probably my second favorite tool. I don’t have anything that can do a lot of work because I have a lot of heavy tools and I can’t move. Makita is not a brand I’ll buy again in the future. Nothing the company can do or say will change this. When the battery-powered Makita tools die, I won’t try to fix them or buy new Makita tools. I also won’t buy new Makita tools.
