Cross vice + grinder = Quorn?

Edited By Les Jones 1 on 11/12/2011 09:18:52

Hi Les

I like your ingenuity, what size grit is your wheel?

I'm toying with the idea of using and old lathe, ML2 I think but there isn't a Myford on the casting so who knows.

Cheers Michael

Hi Michael,
I think the wheel is 60 grit from the part number. I bought one white and one green wheel from AbTec about 3 years ago. They were selling one of each wheel together with a diamond dresser on Ebay. If you do a search on Google with abtec and grinding you will find their website. I do not know if they still sell on Ebay.

Les.

Hi Les

Thanks for that. I think they still sell on Ebay, I'll check it out.

Cheers Michael

The poor man's tool works as well as expensive tools. With knowledge and good job, you get a wonderful result of your craft.

Hi Les,

Any chance of a couple of more photos of your arrnagement please - one from the side and one a bit closer up of the table arrangement ?

Regards, IanT

As it looks rather like a Kennet grinder perhaps the prominent angle graduation on the table for that design would be of value.

I posted this way, way back on another forum in the 1990's just as a concept idea.

It was never built or even close to it.

The picture is just a posed shot of what could be achived with a minimum of "Chequebook Engineering"

The part not really visible between the vise and spin indexer is just a piece of rusty black angle iron.

Obviously this needs redesigning to use a piece of non rusty bright angle iron.

Edited By John Stevenson on 17/02/2013 13:09:59

Hi IanT,
Here is a closer view of my lash up tool grinder.

There are more pictures in "My Photos"
John has just proved a point that was made on another thread that that if you have an idea then someone has had the same idea before. Sorry John I only used black angle and plate. Only the top surface of the table was machined.

Les.

At least you built yours Les, mine was only a concept idea which ironically was shot down by many of the readers as a rubbish idea.

Should have used brass and stainless, obviously not enough bling in it to attract the unwashed.

John,

You should have bolted the grinder to a bit of scaffold bar, epoxied to a bit of plywood, like I did.

The other mistake was not to cover it all with smoothrite

As you can see it also makes a really fine tablemat.

Neil

Thanks for the photos Les - very helpful.

John - I might have some rusty black angle iron somewhere down the shed but I'm fairly certain that I don't have any non-rusty stuff anywhere (just about everything in my shed is rusty!) - so please put a hold on that redesign.

Regards,

IanT

Edited By IanT on 17/02/2013 22:58:23

Knocked up something similer a while ago. I used a motorcycle forkleg as a slide for grinding endmill flutes

Edited By Bill Todd on 21/03/2013 14:45:17