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Tips/Techniques Grinding Methods with tools at hand.

Tips/Techniques
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We all wish we could have every available machine and tool, unfortunately budgets, space, time and wife greatly reduce the possibilities of that every happening.

However for grinding there are options and here is the first example (please post others as you find them I will add more as I find others I have seen)

How to use your lathe to grind your live center with precision.

 
I saw that video. It looked like it worked according to the dial gage. But seemed to my eyes & ears his cup wheel had initial runout. He should have dressed it in-situ with a point held in the cross slide axis before grinding. That dressing/conditioning stone he applied by hand part way through might clean the debris & expose fresh cutting surface, but its not really true-ing the surface. Good that he covered his ways with protection paper or whatever it was. Looks like a nice lathe.
 
I have a sone like that for my diamond wheels for my Deckel clone, it is used to clean/expose a fresh cutting surface freehand. Yes freehand, when I picked up one of my diamond wheels from a manufacturer that is what the explain on the best way to get maximum life as the dressing stone is exceptionally soft.
 
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