Jet Wetstone sharpener - stone retained nut rusted on

[Spindle]

Hi

If you're still resisting the temptation to put an air gun on it and it's the same design as the Tormek - you can take the honing wheel off and withdraw the grinding wheel and spindle intact. Then you can put the spindle in a vice, (with suitable soft jaws), and then remove the nut.

Not sure how you would get access to use a nut splitter unless you first removed the wheel from the shaft.

If you try to stop the wheel rotating by holding the honing wheel the honing wheel will slip on the shaft.

Regards Mick

 

[sunnybob]

A nut splitter is just a heavy duty nut cracker. It fits sideways to the nut and you just tighten down and the nut splits into two even halves.
Any motorcycle, auto or halfords will sell you one.

 

[Spindle]

Hi Sunnybob

That's what I thought you meant, I have several but none would fit onto the thin nut of my Tormek with the wheel in situ, (the Jet looks similar on the Axy website but maybe the access is greater).

Regards Mick

 

[Eric The Viking]

I'd still double check the handedness of the thread too.

If Jet switched from plated mild steel to stainless at some point, they may well have switched over the thread too. I'm sure Sunnybob is right about his machine, but it may not be true of all Jet machines.

The thing about a stainless nut is important: if mild steel and stainless are clamped together (i.e. nut and stud/shaft), the mild steel bit will rust quite fast. I had a tricky welding job on my BMW bike's frame, because the exhaust pipes are stainless, but the bolts and frame brackets aren't. The exhausts had to be expensively spark-eroded too, because the bolts "exploded" inside the threaded holes.

 

[sunnybob]

Mine is less than a year old. No idea on the original post.
Theres loads of access on mine for a nut splitter, the nut is right out on the face of the stone.