Recent content by DB18w

+1 on Fisch and Lee Valley. Have both and are excellent.

I have seen lots of positive reviews on the Rikon grinders used with CBN wheels for sharpening. Just the extended end bells should give way more support for the arbor shaft. Hope this works out well for you.

This is a buffer I built. No vibration. 8" wheels,1 hp. 40" between wheels.

Buffing wheels by their nature are never going to be in balance. When you load up a wheel with buffing compound and the bits of wheel material constantly being flung off that is a fact of life. It's your motor bearings and lack of mass in your motor housing. as bad as that Eastwood machine is...

I have a Baldor carbide tool grinder, a Jet 8" 1 hp with grinding wheels, a Harbor Freight 6" with a flap wheel on one end and a rubber abrasive wheel on the other, a very old underpowered offshore Orbit 6" from the 70's with a wire wheel on one side and a grinding wheel on the other, plus...