A while back, I might have mentioned that I bought an oven to heat my own razors. Especially the HCS razors because Paul Bos, my heat treater, does not liquid quench anything. Since I almost always dealt with ATS-34 stainless, it wasn't an issue until I started making so many carbon steel blades. Anyhoo, here is a pic of the oven and it does a dandy job of things.
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But the primary reason for the thread is to show off my new horizontal grinder. It's a variable speed 1 horse 1725 rpm Leeson and utilizes 48-inch sanding belts. I bought a few 6 x 48's and split them at 1 1/2 inches wide. It was a mite cheaper thatuh way.
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The tricky part was that the motor had 9 primary wires that I had to splice in a specific configuration to the 4 wires of the chord connecting the motor to the control box. From there I had to connect them to specific terminals in the variable control box... which also had to have a 4 lead-wire switch installed in the control box.
Those 4 wires also had a specific place to find permanent home in the control box. Since I am only superficially handyman of sorts, I fully expected smoke to start billowing out of the motor... or control box. I was definitely glad to have a decent set of instructions written by folks who don't write English as a second language.
I am happy to report that it works properly
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I will get a lot of use out of the grinder for making boxes, and using it for the gobs of inside radii that are on my knives and razors.
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I bought extra contact wheels for the "toe" (inside joke..
) It came with a 1 1/2 inch wheel and I added a 3/4 inch and a 2 inch wheel. If any of you want to purchase one, you can get them here. This is the end that gets most of the work.
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But the primary reason for the thread is to show off my new horizontal grinder. It's a variable speed 1 horse 1725 rpm Leeson and utilizes 48-inch sanding belts. I bought a few 6 x 48's and split them at 1 1/2 inches wide. It was a mite cheaper thatuh way.
View attachment 108773
The tricky part was that the motor had 9 primary wires that I had to splice in a specific configuration to the 4 wires of the chord connecting the motor to the control box. From there I had to connect them to specific terminals in the variable control box... which also had to have a 4 lead-wire switch installed in the control box.
Those 4 wires also had a specific place to find permanent home in the control box. Since I am only superficially handyman of sorts, I fully expected smoke to start billowing out of the motor... or control box. I was definitely glad to have a decent set of instructions written by folks who don't write English as a second language.
I am happy to report that it works properlyView attachment 108774
I will get a lot of use out of the grinder for making boxes, and using it for the gobs of inside radii that are on my knives and razors.
View attachment 108775
I bought extra contact wheels for the "toe" (inside joke..
) It came with a 1 1/2 inch wheel and I added a 3/4 inch and a 2 inch wheel. If any of you want to purchase one, you can get them here. This is the end that gets most of the work.View attachment 108776
