Ayeup, how you doing, I saw your last video just the other day, I liked it,... it was good. funny thing is I don't get any notifications from some sites including yours and I can't figure out why.. still thanks, speak soon, Cheers.
Great job as always Paul. You have definitely dispelled the myth that small surface grinders don’t benefit from wheel balancing. Looking forward to making some hubs for my Mk 2 and my friend has a Mk 4 for which He”ll do the same.
A great outcome, and well worth all your expert machining skills. Being a retired machine tool fitter building Jones & Shipman grinding machines for 50 years, it was interesting to see another British made surface grinder. As you probably know, the J & S machines all had wheel flanges c/w balance weights, and actually looking not far off what you ended up making. The first split weights you made were just like the J & S ones, but I do like the ones you ended up with, a much more practical solution, and easier to clean, and not susceptable to seizing up in the dovetails! excellent work, albeit with rusty fingers lol. cheers, Dave
Hi, I have used J&S equipment for years, more centre grinders than surface grinders, they are still my preferred machine. In so far as the surface grinders spin the right way (anticlockwise), I've nearly come a cropper a couple of times with this machine. thanks for watching, cheers
Wow Paul, beautiful work. When I made wheel hubs for my grinder, I just copied the design of the factory hubs. Mine did not have a dovetail groove for the weights, it’s a “square groove” and never gave me any trouble so I didn’t feel a desire to update it. You did some impressive work making yours. Thank you for sharing.
Well that does seem worth all the effort, I'm going see if there is dome wsy of making some means of balancing my wheels, which are direct fitment, but if i did i might miss the pretty patterns left by the wheel. 😉 Are you sure they were sweaty marks and not tears of joy marks?
You should have cut the corners off 4:16, before stacking the plates. To start with an octagon saves quite a bit of interrupted cutting, but is still reasonable quick done with your band saw or angle grinder. ( do not ask why I know 🙂)
That's lovely. Can I ask why you went with 3 weights rather than the more common 2? Is it a surface grinder thing? My only experience with these things is on bench grinders, and all of the ones I've seen only have 2 weights.
Hi, I have balanced many grinding wheels in the past and all of them including the ones at training college all had three weights, that's the only reason I chose the three weight method. and its true two weights will do the same job. cheers
Have to dress the wheel on the Arbor before balancing it, and not the other way round. In this case the the wheel was balanced with the runout, and when it is then dressed, the concenticity is established but the wheel becomes unbalanced again.
That is correct, I did set it up and balance it first, then dressed it, removed it, and balance it again, then I did the same once more out of interest but, there was a very small change on the third dressing. I forgot to inform everyone during the video that's all. cheers
