B&S #2 wet grinding attachment

[benmychree]

Good to hear it, glad to be of help!

 

[chale44]

Looking for any information on how these units attach to the machine. I’ll be fabbing the box, but totally stymied on attachment. Thanks in advance, Mike

Hi all,

I’m in search mode on this very same topic now, so this thread was great to find. I’ve got a B&S No. 2 grinder and need flood cooling for diamond blade dicing and grinding. I’d love to find one of these B&S “Wet Grinding Attachments”, but realistically starting to really think hard about just reproducing one from scratch…I think I’ve figured it out pretty well from the pretty sparse bit of documentation I’ve got, but I’d REALLY like to see what folks here ended up doing in 2021. It seems pretty clear that you’ve got to round up a substantial steel plate that you’d machine a T-slot down the length of (and the two bolts that bolt the plate to the machine table via the “three blocks” that are mentioned in the one description-doc I’ve got), and a good lot of sheet metal work, etc. Not a trivial project, but it’s starting to appeal to me…any fresh thoughts here in 2024 on this topic would be really appreciated. That 2021 eBay link noted, dead at this point, I’d love to see that, esp if it had some good photos, etc. Thanks—Charley in Colo
—some of the main things still somewhat mystifying me are,
—how the base plate attaches to the table, via, I have figure, o-ring-sealed bolts?;
—how the baseplate is attached to what I’m calling the “bottom sheet”; welded onto the bottom of the base plate, or silver soldered, or bolted with a gasket…?
—how the rest of the several other vertical/etc. sheet metal panels are attached to the “bottom sheet”? Welded together?
—that heavy steel base plate, not a trivial part…long enough to clamp your 18”-long mag chuck to, and so on. I'm seeing that is like a $100 piece of steel for the raw material alone…say 3/4” or even 1” thick? Hefty piece…

 

[chale44]

Hi all,

I’m in search mode on this very same topic now, so this thread was great to find. I’ve got a B&S No. 2 grinder and need flood cooling for diamond blade dicing and grinding. I’d love to find one of these B&S “Wet Grinding Attachments”, but realistically starting to really think hard about just reproducing one from scratch…I think I’ve figured it out pretty well from the pretty sparse bit of documentation I’ve got, but I’d REALLY like to see what folks here ended up doing in 2021. It seems pretty clear that you’ve got to round up a substantial steel plate that you’d machine a T-slot down the length of (and the two bolts that bolt the plate to the machine table via the “three blocks” that are mentioned in the one description-doc I’ve got), and a good lot of sheet metal work, etc. Not a trivial project, but it’s starting to appeal to me…any fresh thoughts here in 2024 on this topic would be really appreciated. That 2021 eBay link noted, dead at this point, I’d love to see that, esp if it had some good photos, etc. Thanks—Charley in Colo
—some of the main things still somewhat mystifying me are,
—how the base plate attaches to the table, via, I have figure, o-ring-sealed bolts?;
—how the baseplate is attached to what I’m calling the “bottom sheet”; welded onto the bottom of the base plate, or silver soldered, or bolted with a gasket…?
—how the rest of the several other vertical/etc. sheet metal panels are attached to the “bottom sheet”? Welded together?
—that heavy steel base plate, not a trivial part…long enough to clamp your 18”-long mag chuck to, and so on. I'm seeing that is like a $100 piece of steel for the raw material alone…say 3/4” or even 1” thick? Hefty piece…

—A bit further here; I saw in the B&S catalog page attachment that the “wet grinding attachment” for the No. 2 weighs 150 lbs, which kind of gives me some “scale” to it all. I expect that includes the big floor standing pump/tank, but I can imagine the upper part on the machine is surely 50 lbs alone, what with the heavy steel base plate up there and all. I also finally “got it” on the wheel-guard-mounted “adjustable splash guard”, to the immediate left of the wheel; I can imagine that helps control splash a lot, for sure. My No. 2 wheel guard has the bosses that would mount this splash guard and the coolant nozzle respectively, but they’re featureless, I’d have to bore holes in the bosses for these components, not a big deal.