I'm sifting through a neighbor's garage as he is allowing me to take whatever I want before he sells. Came across this tool made by Tru-test. From what I understand the brand may be foreign made and done for True Value. What I can't figure out is what the heck it is? I feel like it may be missing something, but maybe not. So what is it?
Name this tool?
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WWheeler
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Grinder wheel dresser?
Heavy Metal Doctor
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Grinding wheel dresser. One of the age old first day of shop class items.
Toothaker
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Grinder wheel dresser. Likely USA made. All the Tru-test I've seen was American made. By the time True Value started selling tools made overseas they had phased out the house brand.
WWheeler
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Never really liked that style of dresser. Always felt like such a crude tool for the job, though they did work well to take away a good amount of material after some idiot (usually me) ground aluminum. The newer t-style diamond dressers work much better and typically cost less. I suppose if you really need a flat wheel for sharpening then the single point jig style is probably better still, but cost more.
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This.
Aha!! You were the one. I used the hell out of a dresser like that, cleaning aluminum off the shop grinding wheels, repeatedly. Nobody ever owned up to it. LOL!!
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i was 7 or 8 maybe?. was out in my grandfathers garage messin' with the grinder and a chunk of aluminum. when he found out he wouldn't let me use the dresser to clean the wheel. made me use a pick to clean all the **** out of it.MushCreek
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Apparently there's someone where I work whose sole job is to load grinding wheels with aluminum, but no one will own up to it.