There are several things I could say about these pics, so here goes.........

First of all,

* THIS IS NOT A REAL TOOL! *
Don't bother with making one unless you want to laugh uncontrollably!

I had this little angle grinder which had died a while back.
I had taken the housing apart and discovered that the brushes had somehow come loose, completely destroying the motor.

A few days ago, inspiration struck me
Why not just chuck my drill up to the grinder!?
After all, all I needed was a motor, right?

As you can see from the pics, what I wound up with was a swivel-head grinder that turns at....maybe.....200 rpm.........slow!
It turns so slowly it won't make a spark on iron or steel!

Many thoughts have crossed my mind since coming up with this thing:
Too much tinkering can be a bad thing..........
Back to the drawing board...........
What was I thinking?.........
This is DEFINATELY not a bp..........
OK, you get the picture.

Every time I start this thing up, I just have to laugh,
Thought I'd share with everybody........

James Flannery

But.... it could have worked....

Too many people stop trying out new ideas because they MIGHT turn out badly.... If you (or anyone else) were not hurt, no loss....

Keep trying out those ideas..... that's how new techniques and new inventions are created!

hey james ,
i have been wanting to have a posting like this for a long time
if i get a chance i need to post the pics of my drill press i devised
doesn't work for a "durn"
don't know why i did it i have three store bought ones already
but thats what i do i make tools
i am always devising stuff even if i know it is an exersize in futility
glad you posted that becuse that is exactly what i would have done
not satisfied just bith an inoperative grinder
i would have to know why and how can i salvage the remnants
hats off my friend

Like you, James, I would have thought that would work too. It looks like something I would have tried, if I had to. I have tried things of that sort, just to get by.....Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!

So it has no potential as a grinder... Doesn't mean it couldn't be perfect for something else.

Jayco, your a genius! It's not a grinder now it is a implement to show off your next amazing smithed art piece! Here is how it would work...

First the drill has to be variable speed, second it needs a lock on or some handy electrical or duct tape will do to hold the trigger...

Second secure the entire apparatus with the grinding disk laying flat and pointed upward. lay the new smithed art piece on the wheel and start the drill on the lowest possible speed.

Waaa Laaaa you now have a turn table so your admirers can see the entire piece front and back!

James

Mooseridge, some parts of the idea could still be salvageable.
Even though I don't trust them that much, it might work to turn a cup brush to clean up metal.
The drill in the pic is an old variable speed/reversable model.......and turns slowly even at full speed. Safer.
A faster drill would , of course, increase rpm's.
Might be useful to use a cup brush to clean the BOTTOM of a frame or tank.
I don't know.....experiments haven't gone that far yet..(I,m still laughing at myself.)

I've always collected motors, fans, pulleys, gears, odd parts off old machinery.
I've made a few bench grinders, forge blowers, etc,..........and I've made things like the 'drill-o-grinder' too.

Things don't always go as planned,.........but the experiments continue!

That's why I can't drive past a vacumn cleaner (or anything like it) sitting by the curb. You never know what you might be able to harvest from them and make!

Great idea, would be useful for a large cup wire wheel, not so fierce on workpiece.

Solved a problem once with a similar thing, neighbour wanted to wire brush some old paint and anti fouling off the bottom of a boat, so I removed the spindle with the mounting arbor for the disc/wire wheel which then fitted into the chuck of the drill, and you could control the speed to what worked well without ripping off the underneath layers on the hull.

I just knew I had kept that "useless" angle grinder for a reason.