Angle grinder Discs

[xsspeed]

What thickness angle grinder discs should I use to cut through some panels? I have like 5mm or something but thats stupidly thick for what i need, how thin should I go?

I think it takes a 150mm diameter disc

[Stu-]

Thinner the better for cutting, if your grinding back use the big fat ones

[xsspeed]

Yeah cutting, but the cutting discs I have are too thick for what I want to do. Wheres the best place to buy? Local hardware shop? Its nothing super, just cutting the rear taillight frame from a corolla liftback and the cambeelt engine mount side.

Any brands of discs better than others etc?

[Bling]

Yeah most local hardware shops should be able to sort you out with a 2mm disc or similar.

Most brands will probably be ok just make sure you have good safety equipment as it only takes a second to do permanent damage with one of those Just don't go for $2 shop ones

[xsspeed]

Yeah thats what I was gunna get at, re kickback etc, if any brands/disc materials are prone to it. Don't wanna wear in the face/hand/leg/anywhere etc lol

[flygt4]

don't cheap out on discs or use the wrong type of disc to grind/cut either. don't be tempted to try grind up the edge you just cut with a cutting disc. a lot of people don't realise they are prone to shattering if misused and tend to embed fragments in your legs etc. usually has quite a nasty result.

i'd say any old mitre10 would have what you are after.

[xsspeed]

sweet will pop up there in the morning. cheers guys

[jakesae101]

you can get real thin cutting ones that are farking good used to use them a bit back in my apprenticeship and when working on the car they werent cheap but real good bacause they were thinner than other cutting discs they cut quicker and didnt generate much heat when cutting they were flexovit ones thats right

[Dell'Orto]

We have flexovit ones, they're brilliant, like 1.5mm thick? They get eaten reasonably quickly, but they cut metal like no-ones business.

[thegreatestben]

Norton ones that are for cutting stainless rule.
Esp. for cutting springs

[narlystarly]

Yep as a couple guys have said, you can get 1mm thick metal cutting discs and they are the business for ripping through all sorts of steel quick as. Will chop springs as if they were plastic!

[evil_si]

1mm disks are tops,

but have to be very careful using them,
have to cut sraight and not load the side of the disk or they blow,

apart from that they last for ages, cut like a hot knife thru butter less sparks, less heat more accurate

[xsspeed]

Yeah I got a couple of 1mm discs. Norton I think the brand is. From Mitre 10

[FLAWLES]

1mm tits

best for cutting most things

our engineer at work loves them

[QikStarlie]

thin ones are mean. the normal thickness cutting discs are hopeless after using them.

[Stott69]

Iuse both 1.6 and 1mm ones at work. the life of the disc tends to vary depending on thickness of disc and how hard you push it through the material

[tsoob]

We have flexovit ones, they're brilliant, like 1.5mm thick? They get eaten reasonably quickly, but they cut metal like no-ones business.

they are the shit, work really good on springs so im told HAHA

[crispy'86]

1mm discs are really good for cutting through 5mm steel. I got given a couple to try and it made a huge difference from the 2mm thick blades i was using. Alot faster cutting through the material, although of course, i think it'd eat up alot more discs using thicker ones. Always a compromise

[neo]

The 1mm ones are great if the metal is thin, or your cutting along an edge instead of across it