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With El Cheapo angle grinders it's six one and half a dozen of the other which fails first, the armature, or the gears, some times it's both, I know because the bloke I do some work for buys 2 or 3 every year, at the end of the year we spend half a day trying to get enough good bits to get one going, more often than not the whole lot is rubbish, so it goes in the box under the bench. His old one (probably 20yrs+) is still going strong. Ian S C
yep. handy things those cheap bevel gears i bought a couple to make tapping head (designed but not yet built)bill
Only a little related, but while cleaning an old garage out, I found 20 iron ingots from a old foundry. I have no idea of the alloy, or anything other than they are hard, heavy, sand cast, and a magnet sticks to them. Would anybody have a use for these, assuming I could find out more about them?
Thats a cheep way to buy cast iron, looks like it machines up nice!
Cool Chuck! I am wanting to see how good it works. What is the game plan for alignment once you complete it? Following you progress here buddy. Don
That name "Weider" on the weight. Someone record that as it looks like the material is orders of magnitudebetter than the ones that have been reported before. :-) ...lew...
Chuck,That looks business-like! Are you sure that clamping ring will have enough grip to cope with the cutting loads without slipping?Simon.
Looks good from here Chuck, just don't forget to take a video of it in action.Don
Hey Chuck,Do yourself a favor and put a couple of drip oilers in, or conversely, a vertical feed pipe with a bit of felt wicking. Either way will feed a little oil all the time to the bearings, and they will last a lot longer and run a lot cooler with a little oil all the time. Looks good man...Can't wait to see it in action. Dave
Looks good. Is there a reason for the extra hole(s) in the box tube Chuck?
Very cool Chuck.You seem very pleased as you should be.What kind of cutter is that? I'd like to look it up.