Talk:Angle grinder

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Disproportional Ammount of Safety Stuff[edit]

This article seems to have a lot of safety stuff; too much for it's size.

Safety is important enough  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.49.39.50 (talk) 04:23, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How-to tag[edit]

Here's the content of the Safety section which was removed as being "how-to":

One important piece of PPE is hearing protection through some form of earplug or earmuff. When using high-powered power tools, the noise levels can become hazardous very easily. Through a sound power level and vibrations study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, grinders under an unloaded condition ranged from 91 to 103 A-weighting[2], well above the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's standard for noise of 85 dBA time-averaged for eight hours[3]. This is both the regulatory and the industry standard.

In the unloaded case for these grinders, the sound power levels reached a range of 95 to 107 dBA[2], a considerable increase considering the dBA is on a logarithmic scale. According to the OSHA standards, an increase from the unloaded case of four dBA from 91 to 95 dBA[2] greater than halves the allowable exposure time from 7 hours to 3 and an increase from the loaded case from 103 to 107 dBA[2] from less than one hour to 40 minutes. Because of this, proper hearing protection is required for the task at hand.

I don't see anything "how-to" in here. This is not a guide on using an angle grinder - it says only that hearing protection is important because grinders are loud, and describes a study of the decibel level. If you could say which parts you find objectionable and what exactly about them is "how-to", maybe they can be reworded. PaulGS (talk) 05:13, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's the last sentence that's the problem: "Because of this, proper hearing protection is required for the task at hand.". It's telling readers that hearing protection must be used when using an angle grinder. We (Wikipedia) aren't here to tell people how to use an angle grinder. Wizard191 (talk) 12:36, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Injury photo.[edit]

The photo of the angle grinder injury might need to be removed. It can look a bit disgusting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Treyofdenmark (talk • contribs) 21:51, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inventor.[edit]

Should it be mentioned that this tool was invented in 1954 by Ackermann & Schmitt - today named Flex Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH? http://www.flex-tools.com/gb/index.php? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.192.34.196 (talk) 18:38, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Their history page http://www.flex-tools.com/de/Unternehmen/Historie___Vision.php?navid=24 confirms this but an independant source would be better. Agathoclea (talk) 18:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]