Originally Posted by
charlesaferg
I have much experience with the Metabo PE12-175, and I can tell you these things.
Does not have a variable speed trigger, a gripe of mine and others. I still use the machine all the time with no problems, and love it. I have gotten so used to not having the trigger, I don`t think twice about it. Regardless, for comparison sake, and to put your mind at east, I strongly encourage you to try machines with the trigger as well. For example, the Makita 9227.
When I was very new, years ago, I experienced a thermal shutdown. Only once has this occured, and I`ll tell you why.
It was 90*F in my garage with the door ajar, polishing a practice panel just for kicks. I was using a gummed up auto-store wool pad, un-primed powergloss compound, and very heavy pressure in a vain attempt to get around the severe buffer hop (I`ll admit it, I was a newbie at one point, too.). Because the pad wasn`t being primed, pad gumming up like crazy, and I was just messing around, it heated up rapidly and shut down for a few minutes.
On any recent or even past jobs, though, I`ve never experienced a shutdown. Keep your pads primed, and let the product do most of the work.
It`s one heck of a smooth working machine, auto-stop carbon brushes, has overload protection, die cast aluminum gearbox housing, and my favorites feature, tons of smooth torque and it`s wonderfully small size.
First things that I noticed about it, though, is that it`s light, and built like a panzer tank.
Wonderful machine, try it out, because there`s no substitute for German engineering. If you already appreciate your angle grinders, you`ll want no less.
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