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| kayz1:
Hi Gang some advice if you could please, I need to buy a cutter/grinder to do my lathe tools and end mills. Reason: I could not grind ( free hand ) to save my life, I have tried time and time again but to no avail. I am petrified of the big open stone breaking up and hitting me in the face ( again ) SO! I have looked on the net and all I can find is the Hemmingway Kit or the Warco cutter/grinder. The Hemmingway as a kit of parts, to do lathe cutters and end mills is around £590 :>( then I have to make it, could a novice like me make it? The Warco thing is a factory job but that too is not cheap at around £700 with all the bits to do both jobs…. I have also seen on the net from China the same thing as the Warco machine but a lot cheaper, but then I would get hit for postage-import duty and Vat plus whatever the PO charge these days to do the paperwork or whatever it is they rip you off for… So any help you could give a novice would be very much appreciated . Regards. Lyn. |
| John Rudd:
Lyn, This topic crops up time and time again.... Have a look at this: http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=74610 Then have a read of this: http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=34229&p=1 I'm sure there are members that advocate the use of something else.......... |
| kayz1:
Thanks for the links John, just make it harder to decide what to go for!!! Doh! :doh: I think i have that workshop book with the HH design. :dremel: |
| John Rudd:
--- Quote from: kayz1 on January 05, 2013, 04:15:34 PM ---Thanks for the links John, just make it harder to decide what to go for!!! Doh! :doh: I think i have that workshop book with the HH design. :dremel: --- End quote --- Kay, Personally, I think its a case of weigh up the pro's and cons of either a kit built machine which costs a lot of money and quite a lot of time inveted or go for the HH offering where outlay is minimal. I'm actually in the middle of building the HH unit purely based on; I dont have the funds to buy the kit based unit nor do I have the desire to spend lots of time fabricating..... |
| loply:
£700, or even £500, would surely buy you enough carbide inserts to last a life time, then you can spend money making things instead of making things to grind your tools to make things? There's an insert for just about everything. End mills? Replace them. I can't see that a hobbyist is going to dull enough end mills to make it economical to equip himself with a good resharpening jig. A £20 cobbled-together mist cooler will extend your end mill life significantly. |
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