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You should investigate all the hidden costs of owning a EV Insurance is significantly higher than IC Should it go wrong repair cost are phenomenal with with no third party spares available everything has to come from a main dealer. Should spares be needed you will find that they are rarer...

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One of the main reasons for the wheel direction is so that the wheel movement pushes the workpiece into the tool rest, with it moving the other way it will pull the workpiece away from the tool rest. So it's safer to do it the way all Grinders do it now.

FYI the Axminster 32mm wheel with their bush set fits the 40mm side of my Axminster Grinder, mine is a AW200WSG. Another option might be to fit these bushes...

Given America's past history I suspect the winner will be obvious. Will they vote for a psychopathic, corrupt, pathological lying Fascist or a Woman. I wonder I wonder I wonder

Thanks for the link But it's my understanding that these things only work with brushed motors, my grinder is a brushless induction motor, which apparently run a full speed even when fed with quite low voltage levels. Unless you know different. ;) would love to hear it confirmed by anyone.

I contacted them for price and availability etc, but didn't get a reply, so that scrubbed them off my list. I have been doing some more sharpening today, and now convinced my full speed grinder is not giving me any issues, so will be sticking with it. The CBN wheels I use are rated upto...

I did look into this but from what I found it seemed to indicate VFD's do not work on single phase induction motors.

Thanks for all the most helpful replies. Think I may as well stick to the one I have, especially taking into consideration what Pete said about the different speeds between the US and UK frequencies, that makes sense.

Hi all I have been using a standard bench grinder, to sharpen my turning tools, but am aware that a slow speed one would be better suited, especially given that I am using CBN wheels. Given that they are popular across the big pond with even budget models available, why are they are rare as...

Hi all I tried to visit the Axminster store at Sittingbourne kent yesterday but found it closed with a number of Police vehicles on site. Anyone know what happened, I assume another robbery, the second in a few months, hope no one was attacked, it seemed to many Police for a robbery. I can...

But this was over the last couple weeks, so nothing to do with Covid. I was wondering if someone pointed out that it was illegal to sell Ethanol in the UK without the purple dye and bittering agent. It vanished from stock almost overnight.

So having just discovered the B&Q sell Ethanol as Bio Ethanol and my local had loads when I picked up a bottle a couple of weeks ago, when I went back to get a few more after discovering how good it was at desolving Shellsc flakes, I found they had sold out and when I checked on line they showed...

I don't know if they will fit, but I am not sure haw safe it would be given that a bench grinder, even a slow speed model still runs a he'll of a lot faster than a Tormek.

As far as permissions etc, check with your local planning officer but you should find its covered by the same rules that apply to big sheds, so no permission needed as long as you follow the few simple rules

Just watch this space

Thanks for all the replies, nice to know I can use them without the faff of heat treating. Now to find out just how good HSS bought from China on eBay actually is ;)

Hi all I hope this is in the correct section, perhaps a mod could move it if it is. I am making a couple of turning tools out of High Speed Steel. Mainly negative rake scrapers. The question is do I have to harden an temper them once they are ground or is HSS hard enough to use as supplied...

It's just ahead of its time, in a few years time when the next Labour Government has taken us back into the EEC we will adopt all their rules in full including driving on the right or wrong as we know it ;)

Somewhere in the instructions it probably tells you to clean it after every drying cycle, so it does not build up. But who reads instructions. As I always say, if I have to read the unstructions to work something it's been badly designed, the same rule applies to computer software ;)