grinding

Hi there, I would like to share my setup to grind the spindle taper, may be it will be useful to someone. It was very badly pitted apparently from years of misuse so I got the carriage of my small lathe and the grinder.

Norton Wheel dressing guide.

Without getting into all the long details of what for, I have some diamond bits that are a few thou oversize on OD, and I want to grind them to my needed size. What is used to grind diamonds?

Stanley Toolworks, from the Education Department of The Stanley Rule & Level Plant, New Britain, CT. Original size: 8"x10-1/2". Source Tim Svoboda.

I have a newbie question here. I read in "The Home Machinist's Handbook" by Doug Briney that coarse wheels are better at rapid material removal on soft metals and fine wheels are better at fast removal of hard metals. This seems counter-intuitive. Is this correct? I've been grinding my HSS...

First off, let me state that I have neither sine blocks nor a sine plate/vise. This is a hypothetical question at this point. I do intend to acquire both pieces in the undefined future but don't have either right now. The question I have is thus: The smallest sine block seems to be (Imperial)...

I wish I had seen this when I was first trying to make sense of lathe tooling. This is such a great reference that I'm printing it out and taping it in my tooling cabinet. Found on this site.

I recently acquired an Atlas 10 with a 54" bed. It has wear along the first foot or so of the ways. In order to scrape the whole bed back together would I require a straightedge that's around 54" long? Would a surface plate that long work if I scraped both sides in simultaneously? Just...

This is the instruction for the Clark company threading tool grinding fixture, to be used with surface grinder. This fixture can setup for 60 degree, and Acme threading tools