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In my usual order, when I have too much things to do, I start another project. 
To start from the start.
I bought this old piedestal grinder back in mid 2018, fully functional but without the dustbags on the vacuum cleaner thing on the rear.
The bags turned out to be insanely expensive so never bought any.
Mostly to use with a wire brush wheel for cleaning parts and stone to grind HSS bits for mill and lathe.
Since I strongly believe that anything that doesn't need to be bolted down should be on wheels, I almost immediately made this wooden frame for the grinder to sit on.
I was initially worried about stability but the wide footprint makes it incredibly stable, even with the wheels locked it'll start to slide before tilting.
You can really see how flakey the old paintjob was on this picture.. I never got the bowl ment for the hole in the front so at some point I riveted a plate with a smaller hole to fit these plastic containers that I have a near endless supply of ..
Fast forward to today and I both got tired of how shoddy the green paintjob was, how loud the vacuum motor was and the fact that I have 2 separate grinder stations since i also have a much smaller one.
So I took everything apart and started working on the metal sheet, filling the hole and then re-drilling it with a holesaw, good practice for blending welds.
I would've preferred a bigger hole for the 'bucket' to sit lower but didn't feel like spending more time on boring it out.
I sanded down all the old paint to try and smooth out the worst parts and started fabricating a mount for my smaller grinder.
The smaller grinderwill be dedicated to tungsten and drill grinding. The part sticking out is ment for the drill jig.
I had some problems with the epoxy primer not wanting to fully harden and clogging up the sandpaper, probably since the garage is only between 12 and 16 celsius lately..
Once it was dry-ish I put the parts in the drying cabinet and let it run at 60c for some hour.
This worked quite well and I had no more problems sanding the primer after this!
After applying a coat of polyurethane it was mostly a matter of replacing all old cables and mounting it back together.
Very pleased with how it came out, despite having some issues with the paint at places.
Protip, always clean out your paint gun properly otherwise you're bound to have issues. You can probably figure out how I realized this.
So here's the little stations.
Left side of the big grinder is for general grinding but mostly HSS grinding for lathe/flycutter.
Right side of big grinder will probably always be wirebrush or polishing wheels.
Left right of small grinder will be changed to some kind of diamond for grinding tungsten for TIG welding.
Right side of small grinder will be dedicated to that drill grinding jig as I don't like grinding those by hand.
So that's what my weekend was about, hopefully it inspires or amuses someone!
To start from the start.
I bought this old piedestal grinder back in mid 2018, fully functional but without the dustbags on the vacuum cleaner thing on the rear.
The bags turned out to be insanely expensive so never bought any.
Mostly to use with a wire brush wheel for cleaning parts and stone to grind HSS bits for mill and lathe.
Since I strongly believe that anything that doesn't need to be bolted down should be on wheels, I almost immediately made this wooden frame for the grinder to sit on.
I was initially worried about stability but the wide footprint makes it incredibly stable, even with the wheels locked it'll start to slide before tilting.
You can really see how flakey the old paintjob was on this picture.. I never got the bowl ment for the hole in the front so at some point I riveted a plate with a smaller hole to fit these plastic containers that I have a near endless supply of ..
Fast forward to today and I both got tired of how shoddy the green paintjob was, how loud the vacuum motor was and the fact that I have 2 separate grinder stations since i also have a much smaller one.
So I took everything apart and started working on the metal sheet, filling the hole and then re-drilling it with a holesaw, good practice for blending welds.
I would've preferred a bigger hole for the 'bucket' to sit lower but didn't feel like spending more time on boring it out.
I sanded down all the old paint to try and smooth out the worst parts and started fabricating a mount for my smaller grinder.
The smaller grinderwill be dedicated to tungsten and drill grinding. The part sticking out is ment for the drill jig.
I had some problems with the epoxy primer not wanting to fully harden and clogging up the sandpaper, probably since the garage is only between 12 and 16 celsius lately..
Once it was dry-ish I put the parts in the drying cabinet and let it run at 60c for some hour.
This worked quite well and I had no more problems sanding the primer after this!
After applying a coat of polyurethane it was mostly a matter of replacing all old cables and mounting it back together.
Very pleased with how it came out, despite having some issues with the paint at places.
Protip, always clean out your paint gun properly otherwise you're bound to have issues. You can probably figure out how I realized this.
So here's the little stations.
Left side of the big grinder is for general grinding but mostly HSS grinding for lathe/flycutter.
Right side of big grinder will probably always be wirebrush or polishing wheels.
Left right of small grinder will be changed to some kind of diamond for grinding tungsten for TIG welding.
Right side of small grinder will be dedicated to that drill grinding jig as I don't like grinding those by hand.
So that's what my weekend was about, hopefully it inspires or amuses someone!
