Ozito's Wet/Dry grinder

**Black Bear** · 2nd October 2011, 05:29 PM

IMO Ozito has delivered a real bomb with this tool.

At almost $80.00 one could not expect anything exceptional, and I got my money back.

However, one would expect that you would get a tool that was worth using even on a casual basis.

The wet wheel on the one I took home was 5mm up and down and 5mm side to side variation. I thought "They must be joking". I did not bother to take the wheel off to see if it was the shaft that may have been bent or off line.

There was no eye shield on the smaller wheel although the fittings were there to affix it. A minor detail by itself.

The revolutions of the wet wheel was beyond belief in slowness, and from what I can gather a good 25% slower than other models.

I still think I am in front with useful tools from Ozito at the cheap price.

The Tool bloke at Bunnings said the he could do nothing. I asked him if he would pass the problems on to Ozito and got, "Wot for, they won't fix anything".

And I beleive that is the case in most instances.

You could put the wet wheel on a lathe and true it up, somehow.

You could probably change the sprocket size for speed increase....But not me.

BB

**Ian Smith** · 2nd October 2011, 07:28 PM

Black Bear,
Lets' see...
1. Eye shield missing - yep definite fault worth a return.
2. Wheel run-out - would have been worth a quick check before throwing a tanty
3. Wet wheel speed - I did quick check on the Ozito specs and they quote 134 RPM for a 200mm diameter wheel which equates to around 84.2 metres per minute.
I then did a check on the Tormek specs and they quote 90 rpm for a 250mm diameter wheel which equates to around 70.7 metres per minute.So the Ozito is actually faster!!

Pointless post really - you get what you pay for and with Ozito, given it's price point, it's always going to be a bit of a lottery.

Ian

**Avery** · 2nd October 2011, 08:52 PM

I've had one of these things for quite a while - probably 12 months and it gets used regularly.

I took the small grinding wheel off and replaced it with a buffing disc. The wet wheel has lots of runout, it was like that out of the box. I never intended to use it for fine sharpening. Just looking at the machine before I bought it I knew it would not be good for that type of use. What it is good for, is fairly fast and safe re profiling of turning and bench chisels etc.

If I come across an old abused chisel that needs an 1/8th of an inch removed to get it near straight the Ozito does it quite well with no danger of overheating.. From there it goes to more refined sharpening methods.

If you used your Tormek to do that sort of work you would be wearing out very expensive wheels fairly often.

The buffing wheel works just like a buffing wheel should,

For under 100 bucks, it's a handy device. When it wears out/breaks I would be inclined to get another one.

**hobbytrees** · 2nd October 2011, 09:29 PM

Hi Black Bear , my experience is that wen you bolt a new grinding weel its always
out of true , so i usualy dress the weel with a norbide stick and in no time can be perfect , and i repeate dressing after hard use , cheers .

**Black Bear** · 3rd October 2011, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Ian Smith

Black Bear,
Lets' see...
1. Eye shield missing - yep definite fault worth a return.
2. Wheel run-out - would have been worth a quick check before throwing a tanty
3. Wet wheel speed - I did quick check on the Ozito specs and they quote 134 RPM for a 200mm diameter wheel which equates to around 84.2 metres per minute.
I then did a check on the Tormek specs and they quote 90 rpm for a 250mm diameter wheel which equates to around 70.7 metres per minute.So the Ozito is actually faster!!

Pointless post really - you get what you pay for and with Ozito, given it's price point, it's always going to be a bit of a lottery.

Ian

Sorry Ian, but I thought that this forum was about opinions and discussions on various tools.

I did mention all the things you point out,in my post, and I thought that I acknowledged the fact that the tool was of low price.

Oh! Well, I shut me' mouth in future.

BB

**Ian Smith** · 3rd October 2011, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Black Bear

Sorry Ian, but I thought that this forum was about opinions and discussions on various tools.BB

It is

Originally Posted by Black Bear

I did mention all the things you point out,in my post, and I thought that I acknowledged the fact that the tool was of low price.BB

I mentioned them because you did, and I agree you should have returned it because the eye shield was missing.

I then suggested that maybe it would have been worth checking to see if the wet wheel was attached correctly before saying it had the run-out you indicated. You said you didn't bother, so you don't know if it really was a fault.

Finally, you said the wet wheel was, to quote you "beyond belief in slowness" when in fact my information suggests otherwise, so your information is apparently inaccurate.

Ian

**Black Bear** · 3rd October 2011, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ian Smith

It is

I mentioned them because you did, and I agree you should have returned it because the eye shield was missing.

I then suggested that maybe it would have been worth checking to see if the wet wheel was attached correctly before saying it had the run-out you indicated. You said you didn't bother, so you don't know if it really was a fault.

Finally, you said the wet wheel was, to quote you "beyond belief in slowness" when in fact my information suggests otherwise, so your information is apparently inaccurate.

Ian

Whatever!

BB

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