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sbwhart:
Ok I'm going to get on my high horse:- (high horse smilley)

When at the midlands show the other week I was on the look out for a green cupped wheel, but I was a bit p****d off that none of the suppliers seemed to sell them with the paper discs, these disc are relay important for two reasons it should tell you the type of wheel grit size bond hardness etc and the maximum safe speed of the wheel, and its important for safety reasons and the security of the wheel that are between the wheel and the clamp washers.

Her's a pic of the green wheel I bought and the card washers I've made for it along side a UK manufactured white wheel correctly supplied with washer with all the correct info on.




So the massage is USE PAPER WASHERS TO MOUNT GRINDING WHEELS

I'm off my horse now

Some of the wheels I want to use have a bore larger than my spindle, so I made some bushes for them along with some clamp washers:- its good practice to use washers that are the same diameter so you get even clamping on the wheel

Her's a pic of all the kit to fix a wheel, Spindle  I made an extension to the spindle with a male and female mouting so that mount a wheel further out) Washer, Paper washer, Wheel with bush, Paper  washer, Washer, Nut.



And this is my collection of wheels and quills.



The small wheels were kindly donated by another madmodder.

Cheers

Stew

NickG:
Stew,

am getting quite jealous - even more so when we see some of the results of this. It's like you've got a whole new machine tool!

Nick

sbwhart:
Hi Nick

I'm hoping to be able to do quite a bit of interesting work with the grinder, but we will have to see how it goes.

Thanks for taking an interest and posting comments.

Cheers
 :beer:
Stew

Gerhard Olivier:
Cant wait to see the nice shiny ground parts

Very nice Stew

Gerhard

bogstandard:
One thing a grinder really helps with is when you have that bit of material that you can never get a good finish on. It can turn a real crappy bit of turning into a work of art, and accurately dimensioned as well.

What people also don't realise, grinding can also be used on materials that you wouldn't be able to shape otherwise, rubber and glass to name a couple. One of the jobs I did entailed surface grinding a rubber block to an exact size and shape.


Bogs

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