Favorite Garage Saw: Why Angle Grinders Are Called “Grinders.”
- September 16, 2023
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And to clean, cut and separate the inseparable – a classic among garage repairs, often used by official dealers. “Bulgarian”! Where would we be without him in our
And to clean, cut and separate the inseparable – a classic among garage repairs, often used by official dealers. “Bulgarian”! Where would we be without him in our “rust” belt populated solely by used cars! But this miracle of technology, the basis of the foundations and the first instrument on the shelf, appeared in Rus not so long ago. Details are on the AvtoVzglyad portal.
Of course, it’s worth starting with the name, which, like many things in our endless latitudes, is a little less than completely devoid of logic. The fact is that ‘Bulgarian’ is actually ‘German’. The first to come up with such pleasure was in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where the Ackermann+Schmitt company lived in a small town with an unpronounceable name with an area about the size of Butovo and the population of one high-rise building in Moscow .
Businessmen quickly realized that their name was so-so, poorly memorable and did not convey democratic values, so they brainstormed to organize a more sonorous “Flex – Electrowerkzeuge GmbH”. Don’t worry, GmbH is just like our LLC, you don’t have to say it out loud. In short: “Flex is a power tool.” Or just ‘Flex’, as they call an angle grinder in the rest of the world. But we always went our separate ways!
In 1954, the Flexes invented angle grinders and soon started their way to the instrumental Olympus. Of course: grinding, sawing, cutting has become much more convenient! So the novelty soon gained universal fame and demand not only in the European garden, but also on the other side of the ocean. It reached us too, but in places and sometimes. And extremely accurate. The situation changed radically when the Bulgarian company Sparke Eltos from Lovech acquired a patent for the production of angle grinders absolutely legally in the 1970s. And then it started!
A little faster than immediately without advertising, registration and SMS, Flex became the dream of every man in the USSR. Moreover, if he was also a car owner, which in the Soviet Union always meant quite a bit of ‘custom work’. Samodelkin is our everything, from childhood to the end. Cutting and separating, preparing for welding and painting, sharpening tools and much more.
All of this has since been done with an angle grinder. The Bulgarian registration eventually yielded the more sonorous and popular name “Bulgarian saw”, which was quickly shortened to “Bulgarian”. Now they even write this on price tags in stores, in advertisements and in messages to each other: after all, no one knows what an angle grinder is. It’s just a matter of Bulgarian!
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Of course, it’s worth starting with the name, which, like many things in our endless latitudes, is a little less than completely devoid of logic. The fact is that ‘Bulgarian’ is actually ‘German’. The first to come up with such pleasure was in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where the Ackermann+Schmitt company lived in a small town with an unpronounceable name with an area about the size of Butovo and the population of one high-rise building in Moscow .
Businessmen quickly realized that their name was so-so, poorly memorable and did not convey democratic values, so they brainstormed to organize a more sonorous “Flex – Electrowerkzeuge GmbH”. Don’t worry, GmbH is just like our LLC, you don’t have to say it out loud. In short: “Flex is a power tool.” Or just ‘Flex’, as they call an angle grinder in the rest of the world. But we always went our separate ways!
In 1954, the Flexes invented angle grinders and soon started their way to the instrumental Olympus. Of course: grinding, sawing, cutting has become much more convenient! So the novelty soon gained universal fame and demand not only in the European garden, but also on the other side of the ocean. It reached us too, but in places and sometimes. And extremely accurate. The situation changed radically when the Bulgarian company Sparke Eltos from Lovech acquired a patent for the production of angle grinders absolutely legally in the 1970s. And then it started!
A little faster than immediately without advertising, registration and SMS, Flex became the dream of every man in the USSR. Moreover, if he was also a car owner, which in the Soviet Union always meant quite a bit of ‘custom work’. Samodelkin is our everything, from childhood to the end. Cutting and separating, preparing for welding and painting, sharpening tools and much more.
All of this has since been done with an angle grinder. The Bulgarian registration eventually yielded the more sonorous and popular name “Bulgarian saw”, which was quickly shortened to “Bulgarian”. Now they even write this on price tags in stores, in advertisements and in messages to each other: after all, no one knows what an angle grinder is. It’s just a matter of Bulgarian!
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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