Need Side Wheel (Surface Grider) Grinding Advice

Make it a sharp point on the wheel . 1/4" is way too much ! You should end up with a cross hatched finish as on a Blanchard grinder .
I go for 1/8" to 3/16th depending on certain factors, usually revolving around whether I have my reading glasses on or not.

I can get a fine finish on an automatic machine, it just takes forever to sparkout.

MW, on some jobs you may need to plunge grind your sidewheel job.

Dress your wheel like normal and come in to a touch with the side of the wheel.

Then get the wheel above the part, move the part over a few thou (Or tenths depending) and plunge grind your part face. This creates less heat in the part and limits how much the wheel will walk out of line when it engages the steel.


Its time consuming, but I did my small grinding vise this way and it came out nice and square.


I just looked on eBay. They don't give those things away.


Interestingly enough, this type of furnace igniter is nearly identical to a Norbide stick, only smaller.




I have no experience with that particular one, but I use a similar one to dress wheels with fine details that are too small to get with a Norbide stick.
 
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Try to keep the wheel from loading. I never use coolant when side grinding, it clogs the wheel. Relieve the wheel to a sharp point with a carborundum stick and dress frequently to maintain a small contact area. The roughness of the hand dressed wheel has no influence on the finish, the rougher the better. Use a coarse wheel 46J and only use finer wheels for picking out the corner.
 
Yes, they do cost a bit, but they last forever, blunted edges can be restored to sharpness with a diamond wheel.
They do John . I found a few down here a while ago from back in the late 70s and early 80s . I'm going thru some old boxes and finding a lot of grinding items . Did you buy that grinder a while back ? I'm finding a crap load of small grinding wheels etc .
 
They do John . I found a few down here a while ago from back in the late 70s and early 80s . I'm going thru some old boxed and finding a lot of grinding items . Did you buy that grinder a while back ? I'm finding a crap load of small grinding wheels etc .
I bought your small Dumore die grinder, maybe 6 months, or so, back.
 
As others said, 1/4 will never cut, just rubs. Needs to be <= 1/32. I use a Sharpie to "paint" the very corner of the wheel. Pretty easy to see how much is left while undercutting the side, especially on a white wheel.

I've done to 1.5 degree with a slide dresser or a radius dresser. That sharp edge wears quickly, then more of the side starts to rub. Difficult to redress.
 
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