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| Rob.Wilson:
Hi Lads Nice idea John :med: its good to see those cross vices are good for some thing :lol: Dean, now why did you have to go and post that :dremel: ,, another tool to make :doh: :proj: :ddb: In The Shop Wisdom of Philip Duclos,, pp 24 - 36. there is a design for a Floating End Mill Sharpener Cheers Rob |
| ieezitin:
Cidrontmg This is a tricky problem to solve being that we are small time and cash is scarce in everyone’s pocket. Spending a large sum on a dedicated machine that is limited makes no sense to me, so I saw the problem this way, drills, they are easy to sharpen over ¼ and with patience keeping an eye on the second hand market quality sharpeners are available and one should be purchased when the right unit at the right price is found. I found a Lisle 91000 drill grinder at a flea market and paid $25.00 for it, the range is 1/8 - 1-¼ now its useless under ¼ but over that it is flawless and its easy to use. End mills are tricky as you know, so I am looking for a nice surface grinder to add to the shop, my line of thought is this, making jigs and indexing jigs would not be that hard or time consuming to make, I would make them as needed and over time would get a full set, also you can grind your lathe tools in a flash, then you have a machine which is truly versatile. I do not know your market in Portugal, I would assume its not that good for our line of interest so you are left with Ebay, but an investment in these two pieces of equipment would solve a lot of problems in your shop and paying the second hand market price for them would over time be a saver in time and money. For half the cost of a quality new tool grinder which is limited in use you get the drill grinder and a surface grinder which adds so many strings to your bow. Hope this helps. Anthony. |
| cidrontmg:
To/from John Stevenson: "Allow me to present for your amusement and perusal the El Stevo Tool and Cutter grinder MK0.5." This rang a bell. Now wtf have I seen that thing before :doh: One LED goes blinking frantically - ARC Euro Trade! http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Collets/5C-Fixtures about halfway down the page, we have this, with this title Stevenson's 5C Indexing Head with ER32 Nut and Adaptor Might I be correct in assuming you are the instigator of said item appearing in that page? I like the indexing head, especially because I already have a fair number of 5C collets. I like rather less the bench grinder, a dedicated grinding spindle, and a diamond disc, would be closer to ideal. And I like least the chinese X-Y table vise. I don´t know what TPI (mm) the screws are, but they don´t seem exactly micrometer quality. Anyway, I´m going to trot along this path for a while, I ordered the Indexing head, should be here next week (unless there´s another volcanic eruption in Iceland again), and meanwhile I´ll do some ebaying about the grinding spindle/motor and a bit more sensitive X-Y table. But I´m still open to any brilliant suggestions about getting my end mills sharpened :scratch: |
| DICKEYBIRD:
I built a sharpener for endmill ends using a modded HF X/Y vise and a CDCO sharpening jig. It works pretty well but the mess of AO wheel dressing has put it into storage until I can get a deal on a CBN wheel. rather than re-post the details, here's a link to a thread about it over on the HSM board. http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/showthread.php?t=28945&highlight=SHARPENER |
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