Grinder Face

The tilting you see if from my horribly tilting assembly I built for my AmeriBrade. I was going to cut some angle iron as a 3rd leg to stabilize it, I am just going to buy their tilting assembly instead of redoing mine now that I have the surface grinder!

grinder face 1

That grinder (toobinator) is easy to put together with basic welding skills, I did it with parts (wheels and platen) from another grinder maker. It is literally 50 bucks or less in new steel for frame and two arms.

grinder face 2

I see the grinder and kit on USA knife maker but I can't seem to find any reviews on it. Is it just so new that there aren't many out yet?

grinder face 3

My KMG style belt grinder and the new disc grinder sit next to each other on the bench and both run off the same VFD (alternately - not at the same time) I designed and built a swiveling frame to allow the grinder to sit in one fixed position on the bench but still allow me to access both discs from the front.

grinder face 4

Flipping the grinder onto it's side is the easy button for 90 degree angles, and particularly on an inside radius. Being able to lay your blade flat on a work rest and bump it up against a contact wheel running left/right makes it much easier to grind an inside radius and keep the grinds square to the blade.

grinder face 5

A comment on the compression vs tension springs. The first grinder I built was a pretty close copy of the KMG clone with tension spring. Tracking was so-so. For whatever reason, I never fully understood why, but after I changed to compression the tracking improved. It might be nothing more than the amount of tension that was put on the belt.