Friday, July 5, 2019

Bosch Angle Grinder

The other day I bought for myself a Bosch angle grinder. Bought it off Amazon through Cloudtail at a cost of Rs 1899. It came without any attachment. Basically there are different attachments that can be used with this grinder. So they gave none. You could want to cut metal, wood, marble, tiles, bricks. You might just want to grind metal. Then there are various polishing abrasives. It is a huge range. However, I feel Bosch should have included an assorted bunch of discs.

The Bosch literature, as usual, was quite useless. I am sure they assume that Indian mechanics who use such machines are illiterate. I had to work it out from poorly made youtube videos. However, once set up it works pretty well. Gets a little hot if you are using it on heavy load - for example, cleaning a cauldron.


I had originally bought it to sharpen knives. Worked perfectly. I sharpened all the knives available at home. The maid servant is extremely happy about it. She was having to deal with dull knives. Blessed me a lot. Bought two attachments to clean rusty iron. Used it to clean an old cauldron. Worked like magic. The cauldron now looks like new. However, while cleaning the cauldron I used the 3M eye protection goggles. This is the first time I used them. Works really well. Very comfortable on the nose, despite my glasses. One has to be careful about centrifugal and centripetal forces, while working on the round cauldron. The cauldron or the grinder can go out of control of the operator. It happened to me a couple of times. If you are novice like me, be very careful about this.