Aldi selling £25 cordless angle grinder

Be careful where you lock up your bikes this weekend!!

Batteries not included though, so you should be ok.

That’s fine, it will take ages rubbing that thing up and down to cut the lock

Edit:damn, minute too late

Is this a PSA? Good price that. As an Aldi battery owner I’m tempted but I already own a (corded) angle grinder and only use it occasionally so will probably save drink the money instead 😉

the angle grinder is easily the scariest tool to use i own.

bloody useful though. especially in cordless form for nicking bikes.

Good price that.

The price shown in the photo is for a drill.

Wonder if that’ll take Makita batterys? Been after an angle grinder for while.

Does it do all the angles?

Wonder if that’ll take Makita batterys? Been after an angle grinder for while.

Does look suspiciously like a Makita battery. Hmmm I could do with a new bike, sorry I mean angle grinder.

If it’s anything like the last tool week at Lidl all the battery boxes will be empty after the scrotes nick them all.

I’ll hazard a guess that with the aldi batteries you’ll be lucky to get through a lock before it runs out of charge!

Good price that.

The price shown in the photo is for a drill.

Probably need one for reshaping my specs to have stronger lenses then!

https://www.aldi.co.uk/ferrex-40v-angle-grinder/p/807331556436401

If that was a cordless heat gun I’d be interested at that price, although the battery probably wouldn’t last more than an hour or so.

I’m looking at getting a Makita heat gun for work, they take the big 5.0Ah batteries, but we have a cordless vacuum that uses the same batteries, plus a charger, so I could buy the bare gun for around £60.

And no, work wouldn’t buy one, and most of the workshop guys have their own tools, my colleagues who fit the dual-controls have their own tools, mostly Makita in the case of drills, and I’m getting fed up of dragging thirty feet of extension cable around with my heat gun attached!

Lidl have a load of cordless tools at the moment as well, including angle grinders, impact drivers and a heat gun (was that cordless? Can they even be cordless? Not sure)

I picked up a multitool to replace one that died. I remembered to pick up a battery. I forgot to pick up a charger…

I’ve got a Milwaukee 18v angle grinder. It drains the two 4Ah batteries surprisingly quickly unless you take care not to load it heavily in use*. I’m not sure that cheap batteries would give you any useful run time.

*With care I did cut both ends of a rear axle off a VW Polo at the breakers, but it was squeaky bum time.

I picked up a Lidl one and it cut through a seized Yale lock without any problems. Not tried any bike theiving with it yet.

I have a kryptonite new york chain lock, think it cost about £100 or so, definitely not a cheapy.
But it was double the length (and weight) i needed, so i got a mate to chop it.
He used a battery angle grinder.
He made a point of telling me it didn’t take long at all.
I haven’t used the chain since, i take the car instead if i needed to leave the bike anywhere.

Angle grinder is a little in your face , but ideal if confronted.

Cordless handheld bandsaw for stealth bike thievery. Like a knife though butter and barely any sound

Hmm. I know of a few gates that are locked but should be openable according to access laws.

i take the car instead if i needed to leave the bike anywhere

How does that work?

I cut two hefty kryptonite locks off a friend’s bike this morning with a corded grinder. It was done with alarming ease and not much noise.

Bolt cutters I believe are much quicker. And luckily for the bike thief who doesn’t have time to hang around they come in handy “pop it in your jacket” foldable versions.

Olympia Tools 24-Inch Foldable Bolt Cutter with Rubber Grips – Black/Silver https://amzn.eu/d/azhEZ7I

Hiplock d1000 takes about 20 minutes and 5 blades to get through apparently. Look at the vids on YouTube.

i take the car instead if i needed to leave the bike anywhere

How does that work?

Simply drive the car to the destination, walk home (or have someone pick you up), cycle to destination, leave bike securely locked inside car. Reverse the process when it’s time to go home.

Well I don’t use the bike if it needs to be locked up.

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I have a kryptonite new york chain lock, think it cost about £100 or so, definitely not a cheapy.
But it was double the length (and weight) i needed, so i got a mate to chop it.
He used a battery angle grinder.
He made a point of telling me it didn’t take long at all.

If it’s any consolation it’d have been even faster with boltcutters, faster than you could find the keys in your pocket.

That Hiplock looks impressive – anyone got one?

I don’t know which Hiploc I’ve got but I do know that even when I bought it heavily discounted quite a few years it cost more than the only bike I would ever consider leaving unattended in Croydon is worth.

In fact I would be more devastated if they stole my Hiploc than if they stole the bike!

No way would I leave a decent bike unattended in a publicly accessible area whatever the lock.

i got the LIDL one. also the impact driver.
they have soldering irons, jigsaws,circular saws, various other things too but im waiting for the sabre saw
I see the 20v range 3 or 4 times a year

you’ll be lucky to get through a lock before it runs out of charge!

Yeah but will get through a carbon frame with ease, why bother with the lock?

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I imagine that an mini angle grinder would make a poor weapon and if I was threaten with one I would assume that the assailant didn’t have a knife.

Reminds me, was down to £19.99 in my local last night. The problem was they had chargers but not a single battery. Can’t imagine it’ll be much use turning the disc by hand.

Yeah but will get through a carbon frame with ease, why bother with the lock?

you are assumin the scallys dont have a basic multitool to steal all the parts? no point in cutting the frame.

no point in cutting the frame.

Speed.

(or was that a joke? Nuance in text is tricky)

you are assumin the scallys dont have a basic multitool to steal all the parts? no point in cutting the frame.

Cutting the frame is very quick, undoing stuff isn’t.
Add to that, that if the average stwer is anything to go by, despite being an 8k bike it’s not worth a £30 torque wrench so any bolts with a torque spec of <5Nm will have fallen out as it translates roughly to finger tight for an arthritic mouse, over 5Nm is done up by hanging on a tyre iron so needs an impact driver to remove.

torque spec of <5Nm will have fallen out as it translates roughly to finger tight for an arthritic mouse

that bastard did my rotor bolts the other week then. he told me he was fighting fit! (all but one fell out the other day) (there were only 3 to start with mind)

fair enough regarding just cutting frames for kit. not heard of this through the grape vine locally yet though

Further evidence for my argument that future sustainable urban transport will be e-scooters you can fold and take inside with you, and/or public hire scooters and bikes.
“nice” bikes – cargo, electric and so on are an awkward middle ground. Too big and heavy to bring inside, take on a train etc, too small and easily disassembled to entrust around the local scrotes.

Truly lovely bikes, road and mountain, electric or not, will be / will remain toys and recreational items that live safely locked up at home/work/van when they are not actively being used.

fair enough regarding just cutting frames for kit. not heard of this through the grape vine locally yet though

Security is only as good as the weakest component. With the best locks in the world, I wonder how long it’d take to grind through a typical bike rack?