Portable grinder

Portable Grinder Any power-driven rotatable grinding, polishing, or buffing wheel mounted in such a manner that it can be manually manipulated. 

Coated abrasive products, once limited to sandpaper in woodworking shops, are versatile and efficient industrial tools. Machines ranging from portable Sanders to giant slab conditioners and roU grinders utili2e coated abrasives. Abrasive belt machines now perform many of the operations that were once the exclusive province of grinding wheels. 

OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.243 addresses portable abrasive wheels and 29 CER 1910.215 covers fixed abrasive wheel grinders. The abrasive wheel grinder remains one of the most common pieces of machinery used in healthcare maintenance. These useful machines, used to remove metal from flat and cylindrical surfaces, come in two types. Bench or pedestal grinders remain... 

Many power tools have switches that shut off power to the tool when the operator releases the switch. Depressing the switch turns the tool on. Releasing the switch turns it off. Portable drills, saws, hedge trimmers, grinders and other power tools have such controls. The operator must depress the switch continuously during use. If the operator leaves the operator position or lets go of the control, the tool stops. There is little chance of injury to the operator. 

Grinding operations have, in the past, involved lung hazards (hard metal disease) from the abrasives in the wheel. Again, effective fixed or portable collection devices exist for grinders. 

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