This is a belt grinder I made for grinding Damascus knives & whatever
else I might need to grind. I based it off a belt grinder made by Rob
Frink of
Beaumont Metal
Works
. I bought the 2" idler wheels & the drive wheel from him, also.
I liked his design because I could use many different size belts.
I already had some 46"(I think) belts that I wanted to be able to use &
I wanted to be able to use the 72" belts most knife makers use. This
grinder has adjustable belt tension & completely adjustable belt tracking.
Right now it has a 3/4 HP 3450 RPM pump motor running it. I'm going
to have to upgrade it soon because it doesn't have enough torq to start
eaisly, once it gets going it's fine though. I like flat grinding
blades right now, so I just made the square wheel for it. If I want
to, I can put any size round wheel on it too.
12-11-01 Update:
I changed the motor on this to a 1hp 3450rpm induction motor. It
works MUCH better now! Also, I changed the drive bearings. The
ones I had were static & they vibrated all the set screws loose. I
changed them to self aligning bearings & it runs much smoother now.
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