Surface Grinder Adapter Balancing Rings
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There is a large segment of users who do that. Even Suburban Tool does it. But I don't feel comfy about it.
@Tom Kitta climbs hymalayan mountains, I can't climb a step ladder. Suburban feels safe drilling out grinding wheels, but I keep picturing it disintegrating on me. I guess we are all different. Prolly a good thing. There is also an interesting view of this practice on
Edit - should be Kinetic Precision
I think the best advice I got yet is from @thestelster ..... He says "Pitch it!"
I might try shimming it first.
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Yup, fixed above! Thank you!
After writing a book about my knives, I went out to the shop to play with this bad wheel a bit more.
I shimmed it with a piece of 5 thou feeler gauge left over from another job. I put the shim on the current light side to push the wheel toward the light direction. I could prolly fit a few more thou in there, but the spring action of the shim pushed it as far as it would go anyway. Then I snugged it up on the arbour and put it on my makeshift balancer.
It was a wee bit better than it was before, but not by much. It still takes WAAAAY too much weight to balance.
So ya, it's basically a junk wheel. I'll prolly play with epoxy just for poops N giggles. But not today.
I shimmed it with a piece of 5 thou feeler gauge left over from another job. I put the shim on the current light side to push the wheel toward the light direction. I could prolly fit a few more thou in there, but the spring action of the shim pushed it as far as it would go anyway. Then I snugged it up on the arbour and put it on my makeshift balancer.
It was a wee bit better than it was before, but not by much. It still takes WAAAAY too much weight to balance.
So ya, it's basically a junk wheel. I'll prolly play with epoxy just for poops N giggles. But not today.
It turns out that a major flaw in this arbour is that the right side shaft needs to be at least a half inch longer. Some wheel arbours are fatter than others and the arbour barely reaches the balance rod.
I am going to make a longer one shortly.
Thanks Stel!
I don't think I have a big enough chunk of bar left for that, but I can get close. Besides, I'll never need more than a 1" stone.
That's much better.
Ground Rods are now levelled on small V-blocks with nothing hanging over, nothing close to touching, and a half inch extra for a wider stone. 7.14 degree (1 in 8) taper is a difficult number to hit....... I must have nailed it by chance last time... LOL!
Ground Rods are now levelled on small V-blocks with nothing hanging over, nothing close to touching, and a half inch extra for a wider stone. 7.14 degree (1 in 8) taper is a difficult number to hit....... I must have nailed it by chance last time... LOL!