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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1041097" data-attributes="member: 176704">Spent the afternoon mounting the Grinder on the bench next to the Mitre Saw, but most of the time was actually taken up in making up aluminium alloy shields for the bench area, the upstand and window behind, and a 3rd one to cover the plastic conduit for the mains wiring - from some very old sheets of alloy that had formed the chimney vents for 2 gas fires which were removed in 1998 and have been in the garage every since because I&nbsp; could not bring myself to throw them out on the basis that &quot;they may be useful someday&quot;, and today they were! <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" />The need for the shields is emphasised in the installation instructions - and they were confirmed as most certainly being necessary by the large showers of sparks that came off the first experimental cuts of some steel rod I made when everything was finished! Very pleased with this tool as it will make quite a few jobs much easier, quicker and more accurate than I could achieve with the old lashed-up setup. Will try to take some photos tomorrow.PS: ref the old mitre saw that I replaced a couple of weeks ago: couldn't bear to just junk it because it still worked reasonably well (for what it was!) and so wrapped it up with the instructions and stuck a &quot;Free to Good Home&quot; notice on the outside. I put it on the front hard-standing on Monday morning because many parents walk past as they take their kids to the school down the road and pick them up later - and it obviously found a &quot;Good Home&quot; quickly because it had gone by the time we got back from my wife's 2nd cataract op early on Tuesday afternoon! <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1041097, member: 176704"] Spent the afternoon mounting the Grinder on the bench next to the Mitre Saw, but most of the time was actually taken up in making up aluminium alloy shields for the bench area, the upstand and window behind, and a 3rd one to cover the plastic conduit for the mains wiring - from some very old sheets of alloy that had formed the chimney vents for 2 gas fires which were removed in 1998 and have been in the garage every since because I could not bring myself to throw them out on the basis that "they may be useful someday", and today they were! :) The need for the shields is emphasised in the installation instructions - and they were confirmed as most certainly being necessary by the large showers of sparks that came off the first experimental cuts of some steel rod I made when everything was finished! Very pleased with this tool as it will make quite a few jobs much easier, quicker and more accurate than I could achieve with the old lashed-up setup. Will try to take some photos tomorrow. PS: ref the old mitre saw that I replaced a couple of weeks ago: couldn't bear to just junk it because it still worked reasonably well (for what it was!) and so wrapped it up with the instructions and stuck a "Free to Good Home" notice on the outside. I put it on the front hard-standing on Monday morning because many parents walk past as they take their kids to the school down the road and pick them up later - and it obviously found a "Good Home" quickly because it had gone by the time we got back from my wife's 2nd cataract op early on Tuesday afternoon! :) [/QUOTE]

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