Making a table saw from Wickes grinder

The best way to use this motor is to make a table and obtain a spindle for the saw blade, mount the motor under neath with a pulley and use a belt to drive the saw. This way the saw will be in the right position/height for what you want it to do. I just a few days ago gave away a saw table with rise and tilt and all it wanted was a motor.

Clive

Lofty,

I'd seriously suggest adding a guard to that arrangement. Shouldn't be hard to inconvenient to shroud the 3/4 nearest the operator.

Neil

Hi, I'm sorry to be posting on a thread that's five years old - did you manage to dismantle the grinder, and specifically remove the inner wheel flanges - I have a VERY similar Wickes grinder and I have had zero joy figuring out how to remove the inner flanges - they seem to be captive on the shaft - so the shaft is either screwed in and then loctited or force fitted in - but it makes no sense as the entire shaft from end to end seems to have been made in one piece between centres, unless it was finish machined between centres after fitting the loose ends to capture the flanges.

I managed to burn the motor out, not through brute overload, but through continuous use - it was running for about two hours and then simply stopped. DOH!.

I was wearing gloves and didn't realise just how warm the casing had become. I've replaced it with a 200mm Axminster one, but I have a pathological dislike of binning machinery if there's half a possibility it could be repaired.

Thank you - maybe someone else has figured out how to get the flanges/washers off.