It made its way to its final resting spot. Ran power to it and fired it up. Im half deft but all I can hear is belt whine, think the bearings might be alright. After about half an hour the spindle is slightly warm so the belleville washers must be achieving their preload.
May need to invest in a better indicator now that we have something that should consistently work to 1/10ths. With a 0.001 indicator the table shows no movement down the axis and maybe 0.0002 high in the middle across it but the indicator is bouncing over the T-slot so that ones a bit iffy. The magnet face is true across and about 0.0007 high at the right end. Will remove and clean again and see what we get. So Im happy with that.
At present I don't know enough about grinding to even be dangerous, mounted the orange wheel shown and dressed it. Tried it on a pice of mild steel.
In a little better light,
There is a little pattern in the finish, is that typical of mild steel, or bearing bounce? Or is that even a candidate wheel for mild steel, the specs were covered with the washers so no idea what it is to even look it up.
This was a 1/2 thou cut, 1 thou would blue the surface, how fast should you feed the table, this was at a pretty good clip.
Be thankful for any comments, good or bad.
Greg