Clarkson Tool & Cutter Grinder Grinding wheels

Hello All

Can anyone who owns a Clarkson T & C Grinder tell me what grinding wheels they use and where to source them, I have the book with all the wheel numbers in but they dont seem to be recognised anymore.

Kind Regards

Roy

All those wheels should still be available, they are all standard shapes, maybe not in those particular grades. It all depends on what you want to sharpen but a couple of four inch cup wheels will do most things ally oxide for HSS or green grit for tungsten carbide tools. Wheels can got from any tool merchant, can’t be more precise because we cannot mention names on here but an internet search will provide many sellers.

Roy I have just dug out my Clarkson book, are you referring disk wheel and cup wheel part numbers 92612 and 92613, if you are they are just Clarkson reference numbers and will mean nothing to anyone outside the factory.. in the back of the book, page 27 in my copy are the British standard wheel symbols, these are what you need to use when specifying a wheel. Luckily on page 26 they list the full spec for wheels they used, cup wheel 38A150L8VBE, if they were good enough for Clarkson they will do the job.

Roy PM sent

Have a look at Abtec4Abrasives website. Full selection of wheels and a section on cutter grinder specific options.

Tony

A little surprising is that Clarkson did not mount the wheels on a carrier that could be balanced. May be old wheels were of a higher standard with regard to balance. Having had 3 wheels from a company in the MIDLANDS all were so far out of balance as to be useless. Having twice had a wheel come off due to this problem, I bought a J&S balancer and was shocked at how far out they were ! Using a properly balanced wheel transformed the machine.

I would strongly recommend that you make up a carrier to enable balancing to be done. A copy of what Brierley drill grinders used works well. If you want more info contact me. Noel