Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Had a bit of a detour the last couple days, but back on track......Vevor wheel Package arrived too. I have not spun them yet, or verified dimensional accuracy in any way, but the machining is pretty nice. A far cry from the import stuff of just a few years ago.....Only $115 for these, I didn't feel like being hunched over my lathe for that long to make my own for that price. Pick and choose your battles, and even for my cheap ass, this was a no brainier.......Even though I won't be using the drive wheel on this grinder (have another project for it though....)
Won't post too many pics in this thread, I'll do a proper build thread once I get some more stuff going, but here's a couple.
I love these discs. Seriously the best things I've ever found to removed millscale. So fast. Just work from an edge and keep it moving. Gone in no time.
Some saw splitting action. Wish I would have made that bandsaw table years ago (this was the project I finally needed it enough for I guess....)
Then some milling to size.
And an assembly teaser.
I have my design about 80% done, with all the major decisions nailed down, so I felt like making some chips today. Still going round and round about how I'm going to make the 8" drive wheel with what I have. No material that big, 7" swing lathe..... Have a few options, one of them being building a bigger foundry to cast an aluminum one......Another one I'm entertaining is to make a weldment of steel with a rolled rim. I could also utilize a 8" polyurethane caster wheel too, by machining a hub for it to bolt on the motor shaft, but the other two options sound more fun, and one will lead to me having another tool.......A foundry is one of the projects I wanted to finish this winter.....Guess which way I'm leaning? I'm getting tired of all the yak shaving side quests though so we'll see......I have a few ideas about machining it, so I'm not worried there. Should be fun.....
Still A lot of stuff to make on the grinder itself before I have to make that call though. Should get a few more bits done tomorrow hopefully.
Won't post too many pics in this thread, I'll do a proper build thread once I get some more stuff going, but here's a couple.
I love these discs. Seriously the best things I've ever found to removed millscale. So fast. Just work from an edge and keep it moving. Gone in no time.
Some saw splitting action. Wish I would have made that bandsaw table years ago (this was the project I finally needed it enough for I guess....)
Then some milling to size.
And an assembly teaser.
I have my design about 80% done, with all the major decisions nailed down, so I felt like making some chips today. Still going round and round about how I'm going to make the 8" drive wheel with what I have. No material that big, 7" swing lathe..... Have a few options, one of them being building a bigger foundry to cast an aluminum one......Another one I'm entertaining is to make a weldment of steel with a rolled rim. I could also utilize a 8" polyurethane caster wheel too, by machining a hub for it to bolt on the motor shaft, but the other two options sound more fun, and one will lead to me having another tool.......A foundry is one of the projects I wanted to finish this winter.....Guess which way I'm leaning? I'm getting tired of all the yak shaving side quests though so we'll see......I have a few ideas about machining it, so I'm not worried there. Should be fun.....
Still A lot of stuff to make on the grinder itself before I have to make that call though. Should get a few more bits done tomorrow hopefully.
