My boneheaded move dressing a grinding wheel yesterday...

[montanafordman]

Alrighty... Lesson learned today.. I installed a new grinding wheel on my bench grinder yesterday and I had it off the pedestal and placed on my workbench while I was doing some work on it. Anyhow I fired it up on my workbench and dressed the stone right there, not considering the consequence of the wheel dust going EVERYWHERE. It just so happens my double stack 26" toolbox is next to my workbench and two of the lower drawers were not shut all the way - and now I have grinding stone dust in the ball bearing slides... I can feel and hear it when I open and close the drawers. Now I feel like an idiot. I tried removing the slide and flushing it with some tri-flow spray lube, wiping it down and putting a little super lube on it but there is still some grit in the works. Without soaking and the inability to complely disassemble the slide it might be easier to just replace those slides. I guess there are worse things and bigger mistakes in life. Part of this is a consequence of a small garage. It would be nice to have a large shop where everything is spread out. Better yet have a separate room for grinding/ sandblasting - another room for paint, and another room with a lift for mechanical repairs, degreasing, and assembly. Wishful thinking paying my mortgage for a 1.75 car garage in SeaTac suburbia hell.... Sigh... Just had to rant and confess my dumb move. Keep that grinding dust away from ANYTHING important! In the future I will move it outside for such tasks or heavy grinding.

 

[rsanter]

Take the slides,out and try to,wash them out with something like WD 40 and then lube them with a good lube

Bob

 

[colin39]

Yea same answer take them off clean em in degreaser, re grease then refit em

 

[fatfillup]

Brake clean or pressure wash the slides, dry and lube and reinstall.

Be thankful you don't work in a body shop. Dust kills slides.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Take this opportunity to take all the drawers out and clean the slides and to install new lube.

 

[sr71]

i was expecting a picture of surface grinder with dressing stone embedded in the wall or something ....because you forgot to engage magnet (i may have done that once myself ....use it as an opportunity to reorganize the tools ...after you thoroughly clean / lube the slides

 

[Steinmetz]

Alrighty... Lesson learned today.. I installed a new grinding wheel on my bench grinder yesterday and I had it off the pedestal and placed on my workbench while I was doing some work on it. Anyhow I fired it up on my workbench and dressed the stone right there, not considering the consequence of the wheel dust going EVERYWHERE. It just so happens my double stack 26" toolbox is next to my workbench and two of the lower drawers were not shut all the way - and now I have grinding stone dust in the ball bearing slides... I can feel and hear it when I open and close the drawers. Now I feel like an idiot. I tried removing the slide and flushing it with some tri-flow spray lube, wiping it down and putting a little super lube on it but there is still some grit in the works. Without soaking and the inability to complely disassemble the slide it might be easier to just replace those slides. I guess there are worse things and bigger mistakes in life. Part of this is a consequence of a small garage. It would be nice to have a large shop where everything is spread out. Better yet have a separate room for grinding/ sandblasting - another room for paint, and another room with a lift for mechanical repairs, degreasing, and assembly. Wishful thinking paying my mortgage for a 1.75 car garage in SeaTac suburbia hell.... Sigh... Just had to rant and confess my dumb move. Keep that grinding dust away from ANYTHING important! In the future I will move it outside for such tasks or heavy grinding.

My condolences.

I ALWAYS take the grinder outside to dress the wheels (it is on a moveable pedestal) since it creates so much abrasive dust. Also, you should avoid breathing the dust, particularly from the carbide-based wheels.

When I was apprenticed to the machine trade (a million years ago, it seems), we always kept tool grinding in a segregated area to avoid abrasive dust on machine ways, etc.

 

[woody 73]

Wow talk too me about killer dust, don't ever get any Maclura Pomifera on your slides that stuff will stay on there for the next hundred years...