Peppie Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Want to fab up a surface grinder for my 2 X 72. Looking for ideas, info, plans,and links. TY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Be Creative and make one. If you have a 2x72, you are partway there. Use that thing on your shoulders, that holds your Hat. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John in Oly, WA Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Look up the TW-90 belt grinder and the surface grinder accessory for it. That might give you some ideas you could work from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 I'd find a scrapped one and retrofit the belt grinder to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppie Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 Sewedfiddle, my creativity is not an issue. The thing on my shoulders, says do your research. For me that means look what others have done! That helps me know what not to do for my ability. It also helps me understand what will work for me , in my shop and my tooling. My understanding the function of this site is to help other be more informed, to share ideas, techniques,and knowledge to those seeking help. If you have nothing constructive to offer on the posters question, I suggest you just scroll on by and save the poster, and yourself some time. TY John , Travis does have a nack for slick engineering, I will have a look. ThomasPowers, I have thought about that, just seems that it would take up more space than I can afford to give up in my small shop. An attachment to the grinder will suit my needs and space better. Peppie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedar Crest Forge Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 So you are looking for an x y z table mounted sideways to your grinder, correct? By the time you are done, you will basically have what ThomasPowers mentioned, except sideways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 I have a friend with one set up in his shop but I won't be out that way for a while---he's about 50 miles away and he did as I mentioned: an old surface grinder retrofitted to use a belt grinder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setlab Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Try and find an old junky worn out surface grinder for scrap price and build a belt grinder on it. Probably way easier and versatile than a shop built one if you have something that can pick up a heavy surface grinder that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDL Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 What sorts of usage are you looking for? Do you intend to use it for knives, or generic smoothing/flattening of pieces? What capacity of work piece size? I ask because there quite a few slick designs as grinder attachments on youtube. Your intended use will dictate a couple things. A "regular" surface grinder (the hard grinding wheel with a magnetic chuck and a cross-slide vice) is designed to make incredibly flat surfaces, but it won't help you do things like distal tapers unless you fuss with setting up the piece with parallels and shimming the piece, etc (and they aren't cheap machines). It's really designed to create super precise work. A belt grinder type "surface grinder" can achieve better flattening results that you can by hand, but won't be anywhere near as precise as the above grinder, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Some designs are particularly useful for knife making as they can be adjusted quickly and easily to grind in distal tapers, or tapering tangs, etc. Instead of a large, permanently mounted magnetic chuck, they use a simpler magnetic chuck (thinner in width, and smaller in general) and a swing arm design to change cutting depth. In use, you manually slide the chuck forward and backward under the wheel (there is no side movement like with a cross-slide vice). Since it is used with a contact wheel, with the hinge point of the swing arm behind the wheel, you maintain flat cutting as the depth change is just a tangent on the wheel. The front edge of the chuck is adjustable up and down to allow for tapering grinds. As I said, useful for making knives to get the majority of the shaping done with final finish coming from hand sanding. You could also make one with the cross-slide type magnetic chuck like a regular surface grinder strictly for smoothing, flattening, and final finish of a piece, which they will do an amazing job (much much better than by hand), but without the increased adjustability like I described above nor the hefty price of a regular surface grinder. Here a video of a knife type grinder that I mention. It has the front adjustment for the distal tapering: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 I would be looking into a releasable magnet. having to slide it off and on would get old really quick. I would also be running a way of some sort and not relying on the bearings to keep everything in alignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDL Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Agreed, a releasable magnet would be more convenient and ways would be more solid for alignment. I'm sure such a set up is possible with some tinkering, but I just wanted to show the simple operation for this type of chuck for knife grinding vs a regular type of surface grinder. I've done some reading and watched some videos on making releasable magnet chucks, it's fairly complex for a mechanical release (at least way more complex than I expected it to be), unless you want to try your hand at an electromagnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1971hall Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I too am looking for plans or someone who sells a surface grinder that will work with a Grizzly/Shop Fox 2x72. Any help available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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