[NJStricker]

I fired up the HF angle grinder I bought yesterday to make sure everything function okay. It's a lot of fun to make sparks!!! I think for now it will be a viable means to reduce the stock down to where I want, then I can hand file from there until I get a belt grinder built.

However, the sparks fly about 8 feet through my garage. I'm thinking about building a semi-enclosed area to grind. I have access to some old highway speed limit signs--about 2x3 sheets of aluminum plate. I thought I'd build removable "walls" or a box that attaches to the side of my bench to deflect the sparks so they don't fly as far.

I know some of you guys have bigger areas to work with, or can work outside, so it's not as big of an issue. But generally, what do you guys do? Do you just let them fly?