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shipto:
Funny you should say that, I have yet to take photo's but I have fixed the magnets to the bed and tried a bit of grinding and the magnets did seem to be catching most of the grindings.
editted to include pics.

shipto:
Have moved on a little, brought the rod ends to replace the temporary arm and made a start on the guards.

shipto:
I have been testing the grinder out a little over the past week and come to some conclusions:
The grinder itself is too slow, too under powered and not sutable for prolonged use it overheats quite a lot.
It will suffice to allow me to make the parts to improve it, I am going to reamake that part using a .55kw motor and shaft with a variable pulley to set the speed between 3000rpm up to about 6000rpm. I also intend to make some adapters to hold the grinding disks I need to buy so they can be balanced before being placed on the machine. hopefully this will mean I can have a variety of grits.
Also something needs to happen with the main slide the bearing are digging in a lot quicker than I thought so I am thinking that if I can get some straight thin hardened material that I could fix to the areas where the bearings run that should do the job.

shipto:
Been busy working in the house keeping the treasurer (wife) happy but had a day off today and made some progress. The grinder has been stripped of its electrics and is ready to be mounted on new slide mechanism. Also made a start on the balancing adapters for the wheels.

shipto:
Bit more done :) Over the weekend I knocked up a couple of slide rails and got the motor plate mounted on the slide rails.
pic one shows the slide rails and on the floor is the motor thats going to be mounted (along with the evidence of my bad smoking habit :wack: ) and pic two with the motor mounting plate in place.

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