Thread: An experiment in steel

Originally Posted by Deckard

I'm no electrician but was wandering if hooking up a dimmer switch into the line might be able to control the wheel speed, I know these grinders can use a no volt switch so they might turn off below a threshold voltage??
I admire the fact the Mike has just had a go and got this far, more guy's should. It don't matter how it turns out it's all learning. Time is a factor but it beats tv (yawn).

To my limited knowledge, it isn't really a good idea for bigger motors like you'd find on grinders or buffers. Rotory tools like a dremel, maybe. The reason I say this is because I was discussing doing this with my father who does electrical engineering and he said it wasn't something he'd consider... I don't have any other info than that.

Excellent read. Thank you for sharing.