Use of Spindle for mounting pollinging and wire wheels.

[fireguy976]

Hi,

Has anyone made a spindle mount for a variety of different work "wheels" (ie wire, hard pollishers, suft pollisher, buffs)

I have 3 differnet bench grinders set up. One has typical 2 different stones, one has 2 different wire wheels, and one 2 different hard buffing wheels.

The 2 with the stones and wires never got changed out, I think thats typical, but when pollishing something, theres the wheel for the red compound, and one for each of the white, green, blah blah blah. PIA always changing them up, even though I dont do tooo much pollishing.

So last week one of my grinders calls it quits!!

Ive seen it somewhere in the past, with a wack of wheels mounted on one long spindle, with 2 different motors and pulleys. For slower speed, use motor "A" mounted at one end of the spindle (with a pulley).
For higher speed, use motor "B" mounted at the other end of the spindle with the corresponding pulley for appropriate speed. With either motor running the other just tags along as an idler. The other option could be to use a DC motor with a variable speed controller.
But for pollishing the important factors are speed and force applied to the wheel, so need a VERY torquey motor.
I dont know much about V/Speed DC motors and torque levels.

ANYhow, the above description is best picture I can describe to something I saw several years ago. The ability to go from one wheel to the next, and next etc is ideal.

Anyone have or built one of these?????

Cheers all,

Ken J

 

[AR1911]

Not yet, but an engineer/inventor friend did that with a used variable speed wood lathe.
He had arbors made up for the various stones, wire wheels, and buffing wheels.
the longest had 4 buffing wheels
The wire wheel arbor had 4 different wire wheels.
The arbors with stones were shorter, one or two per arbor.
Slick deal. I'll do that when I find a cheap wood lathe.

I have extra stones galore, and could use a couple more buffing wheels.
And I have a Scotchbrite polish wheel I need to mount.
Oh, and I need some less agressive wire wheels
Where does it stop?

 

[Frank Ford]

Sounds a bit like the long arbor buffing machines I've seen in shoe repair shops:



I have a long-shaft Baldor buffer I rigged up to handle a variety of extra wheels:



I "control" the speed by varying the diameter of the wheels - they slip on and off easily.

It was an interesting project, and I documented the process in detail:

http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/Projects/BaldorMod/baldormod.html

 

[Rockytime]

How about this? I use one and buffs are quickly changed.