Regulating Air Tool "Speeds"

I've been looking into buying an air powered Die Grinder. The couple that I've seen spin at 25,000 and 20,000 RPM.

I need the grinder for an adhesive remover that I bought from the Eastwood Co. The recommended MAX rpm for the adhesive remover is 4000 rpm.

How do I regulate the speed down? Is it simply lowering the air pressure?


Thanks,

Moe

 

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The speed control valve comes with some die-grinders, if not, it's an accessory you can buy for about $5

 

Once you put a load on it it will never spin that fast. Just don't run it "free" with the adhesive wheel on it.

 

Born2Late has it right -- if you try to reduce the air pressure so it only spins 4,000, it will not have enough power to do anything. So - just make sure that you have the wheel on the work surface (with pressure) before you run the thing -- the load will keep it's RPM down. This is a common issue with many abrasive wheels - if you spin them them too fast, they'll grenade, so you always have them under load.

Hope this makes some sense . . .

 

Lots of air tools have a speed control built into the tool. Look at the body of the tool - is there a fitting of sorts that houses a screwdriver slot - if so you might be in luck.

 

I assume you're talking about an "erasure" - the rubber wheel type (I use a Wurth). A right-angle drill works better, but you'll get by with the right-angle die grinder. It dosen't have enough power to worry about rpms, just start it against the surface like the others have said. Thirty seconds & you'll have it down.
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My boy was helping the neighbor strip stripes on a motorhome when the tool acted up he threw it away turns out it was my way I just adjusted the lock nut on the bottom and it works great, BUT there is a big differance between the eraser tool then a regualar die grinder I noticed. The eraser tool is slower in RPM and much torqueior harder to slow down and much differant then the high speed die grinder. I think the next best would be the air drill as another has said. Ed ke6bnl

 

If you are talking about the rubber wheels to erase stripes, my buddies with a body shop just use it in an electric drill.

 

I am referring to the rubber wheels, I still haven't gotten around to using it because of the holiday weekend. Thanks for all the responses.

- Big Moe