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Do you still use your bench grinder?

Sluggy said:
Work has a sand blast cabinet and parts washer that I use. I have no want for one of those in my personal shop. I also have a proper work area in my opinion but to each their own.
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I had a free parts washer for awhile. Evap of chems was expensive and the whole thing was a stinky fucking mess. Can of oven cleaner is quicker and more effective, plus it cleans your hands and lungs really well.
I got a 'free' blast cabinet, and although it doesn't really deserve it's floorspace, it does a nice job on nasty shit.
 
I still use mine, it's mounted on a old mount from wgen they removed them from work. Fine wheel on 1 side, course on the other. I don't use it every time I'm in the shop but it does get used. Bonus points I'm 48 and my parents bought it for me when I was like 14.
 
Bench grinder I don't remember the last time I used it, I do have a HF buffer with a big wire wheel on it for cleaning shit though.
 
Sluggy said:
I'll try out the oven cleaner, thanks for the recommendation.
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it's pretty much just lye, so don't get it on you

kinda like 'purple power' but ultra-concentrated
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I've been buying this stuff at Sam's. It's the best degreaser I've ever used.....I realized the other day that it's just oven cleaner in a spray bottle. :homer: But 3 bottles for $10 is probably cheaper than the aerosols. Can pretty much instantly feel it start to break down the lipids in your skin when you get it on your hands.

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I sorta do. Is there such a thing as a variable speed grinder? For cleaning bolts or sharpening blades, I don’t need this thing spinning at 5k rpm, or whatever it’s doing.
 
Hooligan said:
I sorta do. Is there such a thing as a variable speed grinder? For cleaning bolts or sharpening blades, I don’t need this thing spinning at 5k rpm, or whatever it’s doing.
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My bench grinder is a variable speed grinder. Digital control. Kinda neat, but I rarely change the speed.
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
My bench grinder is a variable speed grinder. Digital control. Kinda neat, but I rarely change the speed.
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What speed do you have it set at?

About how much was this fancy pants with digital control $$
 
aww shit, you mean benchtop ones


one of my bigger pedestal grinders is on a vfd and I do have it set at about 80hz because the 10" wheels are down to about 8" (and it's a slow-ass 1800rpm motor to begin with) but not many of them are 3ph so that doesn't really work for you too easily
 
Hooligan said:
What speed do you have it set at?

About how much was this fancy pants with digital control $$
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I just have it on max speed. Maybe 3600? I don't remember off the top of my head.

It wasn't expensive. Ebay used one.
 
My bench grinder mostly gets used for deburring of small stuff or batches of stuff. Mine's mounted on its own shelf on the wall and plugged in all the time. If I had to get it out, clamp it to the workbench and plug it in it'd get no use.

bgaidan said:
Get yourself a cheap vibratory tumbler and do other shit while it's doing its thing.
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Sometimes you wanna wire wheel the shit out of that one special bolt the thing you're assembling uses right now. Bench grinder really shines for that..

My blast cabinet is right beside my grinder and other than throwing some valves and switches it's ready to go at all times. I still use the grinder for the one-offs.
 
Gumbybronco said:
I have mine on a stand so it doesn’t take up precious bench space. I have a wire wheel and a grinding stone on mine. I use the wire wheel regularly to clean parts for paint prep or threads on bolts.
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Mine is wire wheel and a well worn stone. But I also have a long arm buffer and a Grizzly 72" slack belt and scotch brite combo as well.

All on pedestals
 
I have my bench top grinder screwed to a piece of wood. Then I did wire wheel on one side and drill bit sharpener on the other side. Works good and it just says out of my way till i need it then set on bench, plug in and go.

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the only thing I use bench grinder for is for sharpening metal and wood lathe cutters on CBN/Diamond wheels. for pretty much everything else I use a belt grinder.
 
Ive got three differnt bench grinders with buffing, grinding and wire wheels on them.. Theyre mounted on plywood like all of my bench tools and kept on shelves or in my sideways file cabinets. I have 3/8ths all thread couplers epoxied down into my wooden bench top and 3/8ths nuts welded under my stainless bench top. Throw the grinder on the bench thumb screw it down and go to work. Keeps them out of the way when I dont use them. Its not the greatest but it works.
 
nice system! I do most of my work outside in a carport, so I mount alot of my tools on trailer hitch tubing, and have a receiver on one of my outdoor tables/stands. and built in set screws (bolts) to snug the tubing in two directions to keep it from flopping around while in use. similar idea though. Ugh, just wish I had more space :shaking:
 
I build a base for a HF bench grinder years ago, turned up a drive pulley and made an arm with a timing belt tensioner pulley from a Toyota camry 5SFE engine that I set up to use the 1x30 belts (cheap). I have an EXL wheel on the other side. I haven't used a bench grinder in years....but I use this belt thing about daily for polishing/deburring/whatever. Heavy stock removal gets the angle grinder.
 
Always, sharpen drill bits everytime I'm in the shop with it. Other side has a 1/2 worn wire wheel it's been a lifesaver for years.
 
Set mine next to the scrap bin at work a couple months ago. It hadn't been used in 10 years probably, got tired of sliding it around on the shelves in the garage.
 
Almost only use it for sharpening tungsten. Terribly grooved wheel probably going to explode soon on one side and wire wheel on the other.
 
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