Belt Grinder

andrew_ln65 said:
I got rid of all my bench/stone grinders since having the belt.

Do it!
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Bench grinders still have a place. I sharpened my big drill bits on mine and have a finger skin remover HD wire wheel on the other end.

But the other two bench grinders I have never get used

I did buy one of those belt grinder attachments that mount on a bench grinder. I thought it would work sharpening bits and quick deburing tool. I haven’t installed it yet though.
 
rattle_snake said:
I got to visit the eye doc recently, so wear proper eye pro with a belt grinder, due to high velocity. I was wearing glasses, just not safety glasses. Metal in the eye is a bitch.
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Just remember everyone, you can’t hear t!tt!es

Never skimp on horsepower. 1HP is bottom of the scale for what’s required to effectively enjoy belt sanders. And you only need one speed, fast AF boi. This style is ok and better than no belt sander but I’d much prefer a single pulley machine against the wall someday.
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My gripe with this unit is that 7” psa discs are an odd size-hard to find, low quality etc
 
Landslide said:
Bench grinders still have a place. I sharpened my big drill bits on mine and have a finger skin remover HD wire wheel on the other end.

But the other two bench grinders I have never get used

I did buy one of those belt grinder attachments that mount on a bench grinder. I thought it would work sharpening bits and quick deburing tool. I haven’t installed it yet though.
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I did some fabri-cobbling and mounted the skin removal wheel on the side of the belt grinder. Win win. But with 2hp it goes deep, fast. Gotta respect that thing and have a damn good grip on whatever you're cleaning.
 
I built a ******ed 6x108? one years back, like everything I build it needs some design iteration which it'll likely never get
kinda regret going with what belts were cheap at the time
shoulda just gone with 48 or whatever is common

5k sfm is the only speed you want
unless you're like trying to do gay knife stuff I guess
 
WiscoF100 said:
Just remember everyone, you can’t hear t!tt!es

Never skimp on horsepower. 1HP is bottom of the scale for what’s required to effectively enjoy belt sanders. And you only need one speed, fast AF boi. This style is ok and better than no belt sander but I’d much prefer a single pulley machine against the wall someday.
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My gripe with this unit is that 7” psa discs are an odd size-hard to find, low quality etc
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I doubt I’d even use that option on mine as I have a 12” I use and have a bunch of sanding disk for it. I bought a ton of quality ones at a swap meet years ago.
 
First is my .0000002 nano second skin to bone 2” wide belt grinder. It’s a 2hp 3 phase beast that I nickname the Huey as it sounds like beast running and moves air. I paid around $50 at an auction for it. A buddy of mine and I bought four of them and sold three and I kept this one. Not sure if it was the better of them but, can’t complain about it, other than it does take up a bit of a foot print. I wanna put it on caster wheels with locks but I have to design a cart to deal with its top heaviness.

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This is my 1” belt sander I bought from a guy for around $150. Haven’t used it yet and I’ve had it around a year now.

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This is my bench grinder belt attachment thing I bought but haven’t installed yet. I’ve been wanting one of these for years but figured they were just crap made. I gotta say tho that it seems pretty decent made but will see how it goes when I get around to installing it. Hopefully one of my bench grinders are powerful enough to make it spin under load

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[486] said:
I built a ******ed 6x108? one years back, like everything I build it needs some design iteration which it'll likely never get
kinda regret going with what belts were cheap at the time
shoulda just gone with 48 or whatever is common

5k sfm is the only speed you want
unless you're like trying to do gay knife stuff I guess
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A buddy of mine bought a surface grinder from a guy around 50 miles from us that makes knives. He was on forged in fire show twice. He makes very nice looking gay knives but demands a premium for them. Too rich for my blood. He uses three VFD controlled burr king belt grinders. Those are badass grinders but fawk they are $$$ and they hold their value. Good luck getting one at an auction reasonable.
 
JohnnyJ said:
If you order from send cut send soon, I'd be interested in what it cost to cut. I'm sure I could queue up the files myself, but I'm lazy.
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I uploaded the more complex shapes and that comes to $132. If you do all the pieces that have some shape to them other than flatbar cut to length it comes to about $200

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I bet if you went in with a few other people, with 1 order from SendCut, it would be alot cheaper. I've only used them a few times, but I remember that it wasn't much more expensive to have a few duplicates cut, beyond the original one. I guess you would still have to ship out the parts to the other people, so there would be a bit of cost there.
 
dnsfailure said:
I bet if you went in with a few other people, with 1 order from SendCut, it would be alot cheaper. I've only used them a few times, but I remember that it wasn't much more expensive to have a few duplicates cut, beyond the original one. I guess you would still have to ship out the parts to the other people, so there would be a bit of cost there.
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According to his quote above it doesn’t look like it’s cheaper adding more parts to the order. The first part on his order is for quantity of 3 and it just triples the amount for the cost of quantity of 1.
 
Landslide said:
According to his quote above it doesn’t look like it’s cheaper adding more parts to the order. The first part on his order is for quantity of 3 and it just triples the amount for the cost of quantity of 1.
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It does drop when you add more parts. Once you get above about 5 the drop is in the pennies though.

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dnsfailure said:
I bet if you went in with a few other people, with 1 order from SendCut, it would be alot cheaper. I've only used them a few times, but I remember that it wasn't much more expensive to have a few duplicates cut, beyond the original one. I guess you would still have to ship out the parts to the other people, so there would be a bit of cost there.
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Does get cheaper the more you order.

1 = $200
2 = $300, 150 / set
3 = $414, $138 / set
4 = $500, $125 / set
 
Seubs070 said:
It does drop when you add more parts. Once you get above about 5 the drop is in the pennies though.
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I know a guy who does some work through Xometry and so much of that stuff is one-off pieces. Most of his time is in setup and he is constantly lamenting that once he is to that point he'd rather make at least five or ten than just one.
 
Sceep said:
It is.

I ordered the Temu one for my 1hp machine. Guess we'll see how it goes.
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Figured out why the temu one is $50 cheaper... No toolless angle adjustment. 😩 Kinddah bummed on that because I was looking forward to that feature for storage. Otherwise, functions badass! Might return it and buy the Eastwood for the adjustment though.
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Can you just drill some additional locating holes? I built my grinder base to pivot for upright storage/use/etc
 
WiscoF100 said:
Can you just drill some additional locating holes? I built my grinder base to pivot for upright storage/use/etc
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no need. it adjusts. Its just not tool less. I dont want to have to grab a wrench and loosen 3 nuts multiple times a day to adjust it out of the way.

I ordered some clamping levers to hopefully convert it to tool less rather than returning it. Should be here tomorrow.
 
That was my next suggestion after studying the Eastwood design just now. Yours must be much different than mine (multitool) I can’t adjust the position because of the construction. I’d have to remove the drive drum anyways.
 
rattle_snake said:
I have this. It was the cheapest option at the time. Bought the cheapest 1.5 hp motor to run it. Price is 2x on everything now.

Home - Coote Belt Grinder | 2 x 48 and 2 x 72 Belt Grinder Knife Grinder Belt Sander

Heavy Duty, Precision Machined 2 x 72 & 2 x 48 Belt Grinders. Perfect for knife making and other industrial work. High quality made in the USA since 1967.
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Same here, was the best value at the time.

Did the 48" version, high quality parts. Gets a lot of use
 
Sceep said:
no need. it adjusts. Its just not tool less. I dont want to have to grab a wrench and loosen 3 nuts multiple times a day to adjust it out of the way.

I ordered some clamping levers to hopefully convert it to tool less rather than returning it. Should be here tomorrow.
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Well, this guy likes cleaning his feet on your belt. So, two fly feet up rating he gives it
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Sceep said:
I ordered some clamping levers to hopefully convert it to tool less rather than returning it.
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Had to hackfuck my saw table a bit more than I wanted but the clamping levers appear to work decently. Will try and run the **** outtah this thing the next 20 days to see if I want to return it or not.

Got full 180* out of it though.

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