How To Balance Bench Grinder Wheels

First ring your wheels here you have to take your wheel off and tie a piece of rope or twine through the center so the wheel can dangle in mid air.

How to balance bench grinder wheels. Gosforth handyman 24 664 views. Here are 8 easy steps to help you balance your bench grinder wheels. I carefully level a small surface plate.

If it looks minimal turn on the grinder and observe the side to side wobble at high speed. Mount a wheel on the arbor shaft and secure with the washer arbor nut do not over tighten the nut on the arbor it can induce wobble. This video is about rikon grinder wheel balancing truing see my previous video on this grinder for setting up tormek tool attachments at.

In this video i discuss some simple solutions to fixing the wobble in your bench top grinder i explain the accessories you can buy and which ones i use or have used and which ones to stay away. If these wheels are new let the grinder run a full minute and stay out of the way in case they explode. Record power rsbg6 bench grinder with a cbn wheel duration.

Harig surface grinder wheel balancing ring with before after results duration. Alternatively spin the wheel at lower speed and check for wobbling. Since i don t have one and don t really have room to store one i put one together as needed.

Then i dig out four matched 1 2 3 blocks with holes threaded 3 8 16. It is time to see how we are doing. Plug in the grinder stand to the side and switch on power.

Spin the wheel slowly by hand. Mount a wheel on the arbor shaft and secure with the washer arbor nut do not over tighten the nut on the arbor it can induce wobble. Then secure the wheels on to the spindle and tighten the flanges leaving room for you to open them easily.

If it looks minimal turn on the grinder and observe the side to side wobble at high speed. Notice the amount of side to side wobble. With both wheels dressed and their nuts tighten with a short wrench.

Wobbling is most visible at this speed as the wheel rotates up and down at the end of the spin. Spin the wheel slowly by hand. Ideally the grinder will smoothly come up to speed with no vibration.

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