Creative idea with the washers. I believe what would also work well is what's called a 'tapered buffing spindle'. It attaches to the post sticking out and will give you more room to buff and polish.
You made this look easy, so I'm going to follow your lead, thanks! I also notice that you appear to have lined your work bench with what looks like kitchen floor covering, this looks good and is practical for my purposes, waste not, etc! I have some old kitchen floor covering I can utilise! So thanks again!
I've done this and works great! I've polished 2 large knives! I need to buy a better buffing wheel! Felt types from wish are great and cheap as chips for testing and trying everything will work out for you! Now I'm off to the hardware store! It's bloody addictive!
You absolutely CAN leave the guards on if you choose. Also remove the three screws and turn the guards around towards the back of the grinder. That way the wheel is going away from you when polishing and will not dig into anything sharp you are trying to buff or polish. Good Luck!
The only issues I have are that for one.. the polishing wheel is too close to the body of the grinder. You need more space for just about anything you will polish The other thing is that on my grinder I have a medium stone and a wire wheel on the other side. I use both a lot. They do make an extension shaft for the short bench grinder shaft tho. I also have a dedicated buffer and even with both wheels I end up changing to different wheels all the time. Lastly... I bought my 6" buffer for like 80 bucks or so and it even came with a couple of buffer pads..... I need all the slots I got and then some... that being said.... I have been eyeing an old washing machine motor sitting in my junk shelf...
Huh. Yeah, neat. Soooo... how do you keep the vibration from the 2cm of vertical travel the non-centered, non-balanced polishing wheel Is going to impart to the grinder from making it walk across the room and/or tear itself apart?
@@joenwc Well, then there's this other part where generally, it's hard to do really precise lapping - say of a 1/4" chisel, as a for-instance - when one has a rapidly-spinning, 15lb slab of bloody STONE slapping into it 15 times a second, yanno?
Good stuff. Answering the question I had. Thanks for sharing.
Creative idea with the washers.
I believe what would also work well is what's called a 'tapered buffing spindle'. It attaches to the post sticking out and will give you more room to buff and polish.
You made this look easy, so I'm going to follow your lead, thanks! I also notice that you appear to have lined your work bench with what looks like kitchen floor covering, this looks good and is practical for my purposes, waste not, etc! I have some old kitchen floor covering I can utilise! So thanks again!
I've done this and works great! I've polished 2 large knives! I need to buy a better buffing wheel! Felt types from wish are great and cheap as chips for testing and trying everything will work out for you! Now I'm off to the hardware store! It's bloody addictive!
Aw man hardor freight has some good tool for around the house hobbies
You should put the additional washers outside of the centering washers,,the way you have it the centering washers aren't centering the wheel.
You absolutely CAN leave the guards on if you choose. Also remove the three screws and turn the guards around towards the back of the grinder. That way the wheel is going away from you when polishing and will not dig into anything sharp you are trying to buff or polish. Good Luck!
You should have also started the grinder to show that adding the buffing wheel caused vibration. Then show how to mitigate that vibration.
Love the Benny Hill music was watching him last night great video and a bargain Kev UK🇬🇧
Are there any pros/ cons on this method over using the tapered spindle adapters specifically for buffing/ polishing wheels? Any thoughts?
as soon as he cracked that beer I subscribed
This is very helpful, thank you
I subscribed for the Benny Hill music, lol.
Now that was a handy dandy video i thank you folks ...
I think you installed the nuts reverse side when installing the buffing wheel. Convex side shall be towards the wheel.
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Nice Video,,, I have copied this to make my own buffer
Very informative but plz upload more
The only issues I have are that for one.. the polishing wheel is too close to the body of the grinder. You need more space for just about anything you will polish The other thing is that on my grinder I have a medium stone and a wire wheel on the other side. I use both a lot. They do make an extension shaft for the short bench grinder shaft tho. I also have a dedicated buffer and even with both wheels I end up changing to different wheels all the time. Lastly... I bought my 6" buffer for like 80 bucks or so and it even came with a couple of buffer pads..... I need all the slots I got and then some... that being said.... I have been eyeing an old washing machine motor sitting in my junk shelf...
Really? And in the end, you didn't turn on the machine to let us see the wobble ... or non wobble?
Huh. Yeah, neat. Soooo... how do you keep the vibration from the 2cm of vertical travel the non-centered, non-balanced polishing wheel Is going to impart to the grinder from making it walk across the room and/or tear itself apart?
I was having similar questions as well, my first concern was seeing the text that explains it's his first time taking on apart.
@@joenwc Well, then there's this other part where generally, it's hard to do really precise lapping - say of a 1/4" chisel, as a for-instance - when one has a rapidly-spinning, 15lb slab of bloody STONE slapping into it 15 times a second, yanno?
Google the design of polishing grinding wheel spacers
Thanks again I
Is 1/2hp enough for buffing and polishing ?
Plenty. 1/3 works.
Not going to work very well unless it's perfectly centered
Doesnt look centered. Looks like its gonna vibrate like hell.
He is dangerous, I recommend another video
Sub for the bandit comment. The Legend
You sd retire asap