Thread: Fat wheels for grinders.

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6. cut around the line remembering to stay on the inside of the outside line & the outside of the inside line. :confused: (Outback, I need your help here. )
7. clamp the cut out spacer to the cover & drill through the holes in the cover to make holes in the spacer.
8. slam some crude 25mm roofing screws through it with a hex head driver.

Job done.

Cliff,
what's next? Mag wheels and wide rubber for the car? Sunraysias and monster mudder tyres for the old grey ghost? You hoon!

Mick

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

.... You hoon!

Mick

FAT wheels? FAT WHEELS? This obesity thing is getting too much!

You didn't explain to us - whajawannadothatfor???

:confused:

Cliff,

Kewl. I think I'll have a go at that. How you gonna' slow it down? Or not.:confused:

Originally Posted by IanW

FAT wheels? ....
You didn't explain to us - whajawannadothatfor??? :confused:

I use them for turning tools. The Blu-Max is the latest fad.

Originally Posted by Bob Childress

..How you gonna' slow it down? Or not.:confused:

Not....no need to... the blue wheel is made out of aluminiun oxide, 54 grit with J-bond honeycomb construction, this allows air to pass through the wheel, resulting in the tool being considerably cooler than with a conventional wheel during the grind.

The white wheel on the other end is aluminium oxide 60 Grit, & before the blue on came along, was considered the best option to sharpen turning tools.

There is also a pink wheel that is 80 Grit & if I didn't already have the white wheel, I have it on one end & the blue one on the other.

Hi Cliff,
It was the width I was asking about. I sort of intuitively think wider wheels should be better, but have trouble keeping my 25mm wheel as true as I'd like - it seems to get a bit lopsided, no matter how carefully I dress it.

Been reading about the blue wheels and wondering. Getting a white wheel many years ago was such a revelation, & it's said going blue is another great leap forward.

Please give us your thoughts once you've given it a good workout.
Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

Hi Cliff,
It was the width I was asking about. I sort of intuitively think wider wheels should be better, but have trouble keeping my 25mm wheel as true as I'd like - it seems to get a bit lopsided, no matter how carefully I dress it.

Been reading about the blue wheels and wondering. Getting a white wheel many years ago was such a revelation, & it's said going blue is another great leap forward.

Please give us your thoughts once you've given it a good workout.
Cheers,

Ian, I have the same prob dressing the wide wheels on my grinder.

I have a single point diamond dresser. I read somewhere that they should give the best wheel surface, but I wonder if the t bar type diamond dressers would be better?


Cheers...............Sean

I also have a single point wheel dresser, but I put a jubilee clamp on its shaft such that the tip just touches the deepest "rut" in the wheel and the clamp is behind but touching the guide (which I make sure is perpendicular to the wheel's surface) - then w awhizz or two and a nice flat wheel face is presented...

Thanks steve, I have done pretty much the same thing but results are all over the place.


Cheers...............Sean

Hmmm, part of my problem may be that I'm still using an old-fashioned star-wheel dresser. Orright, stop falling about laughing, I'm older than many (most?) of you, and entitled to be a bit of a Luddite.

So looks like a diamond dresser is wot's the go? Sounds like a good thing to put one on the Chrissy wish-list.......

Cheers,

I use an old course wheel held flat on the rest & run it across the grinder while it is going to square off the running wheel, the I give it a hit with the star wheel to sharpen it.
Using a courser wheel to flaten it works fine but it also has the side affect of dulling the grinding points a bit.
The star wheel smashes the wheel surface to expose new sharp grinding grit.
Try it, heaps cheaper than a diamond dresser.

Thanks Cliff - sounds like my kind of solution - I've got a cheap coarse stone that will do nicely - I'll give it a whirl.
Cheers,

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

I also have a single point wheel dresser, but I put a jubilee clamp on its shaft such that the tip just touches the deepest "rut" in the wheel and the clamp is behind but touching the guide (which I make sure is perpendicular to the wheel's surface) - then w awhizz or two and a nice flat wheel face is presented...

Steve,
I have genuinely read this three times and admit to being envious of the way in which Scooter, Cliff and Ian W all blithely have understood what you said and responded appropriately.:eek:
Ever been afraid of saying something and making a fool of yourself? That is the way I feel about what you have said.
I am sure that it is relevant to know what you meant, but unfortunately you have said it in a way that assumes an understanding I do not posess.

As Pauline Hanson would have said, "PLEASE EXPLAIN?" I do want to understand.