Diamond wheel tool grinder

A little this and that (blue pill and KY) looks after that! Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Mine said that it was diamond. I got a spare wheel when I got mine --just to be sure. Since they also sharpen carbide bits, and carbide-tipped masonry bits, it pretty much requires diamond for those. What color is CBN? I've never (knowingly) seen a wheel made from that.

It turns out to not have been very good at doing split points on the smaller bits which I wanted them on, though it is not bad at the larger bits.

And I'm doing most of my small bit sharpening on the more recently acquired DuMore drill grinder -- which does nicely (but no split points) down to #70 bits.

Nice enough for larger bits (where it saves me more money, and the DuMore can't handle above 1/4") but not that good for smaller bits. And one problem which they did not mention in the manual back then at least -- with either fast-spiral or slow-spiral bits the orientation of the bit is wrong, since it is gauging some distance back from the tip. The DuMore gauges from a reflection of the end as seen in a magnifier. A pity that they discontinued that drill grinder.

Enjoy, DoN.

It s either CBN or borazon. No particular color.

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Just a kid! :-)

As far as slowing down is concerned, I am not nearly the guy I was ten years ago, although I still do everything I am called upon to do. I go to bed tired these days, and require more sleep than I once did.

Your father is doing well! Very well, indeed.

I can't really complain. There are folks younger than me that struggle------

Life is good! :-)

Harold

I have a couple of issues with the point splitting:

-The split extends past the centre of the bit - I will try adjusting the position of the wheel on it's shaft.

-The grind goes too far back on the drill - to re-sharpen I have to grind off too much of the split portion. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Roger that!

I retired when I was just shy of my 55th. birthday. To this day I wonder, where did I find time to run my business? While I pace myself now, and don't put in the long, dreadful days I once knew, I keep busy. I can't imagine what it would be like to have "spare" time. Many of my projects sit on the back burner, the result of no time.

Your comments in the other post, regards snow blowing your 8 car lot. One of the reasons I left Utah was to get the hell away from snow. Didn't manage to do it completely, but I have yet to shovel any snow here. It can go away the same way it got here-----all by itself.

Harold

I'm fortunate that I have a corner lot and can just dump the snow over the hedge along the far side of the driveway (70' x 16' = four cars long by two wide). Gerry :-)} London, Canada

We don't get that much (eastern side of Michigan), maybe 3', but the damn stuff don't leave except for the occasional January thaw. From sometime in November-December until late March-early April. Yuck.

Pete Keillor

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:03:04 GMT, the infamous "Harold and Susan Vordos" scrawled the following:

Crikey, 'Arry. You're building your own house from the dirt up. It's no wonder that you have no spare time for other things. Once you get that done, you'll have eons of time to relax. (Email an update on the house to me, will ya? Got pics? I want to see your ICF.)

Speaking of snow, I just put my unused snow chains on Craigslist. they were for the F-150 which I no longer own, and they won't fit the new

18" tires/rims on the Tundra.

If you wanted to get away from the snow, you should have moved down a few degrees latitude, not six degrees UP, silly boy.

-- Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

To say the least, it has been an experience. I'm slow as cold tar, but we have made progress. :-)

Yeah, I have pics, but none since I started putting on the vinyl for the gable ends. That really makes a difference, that, and the garage doors. I'll take a shot and get it off to you, with a description of our progress. Give me a day. Do you have a fast connection? I just got one and understand all too well what it's like to get large files. Let me know if size is an issue. It's likely to be around 130 kb. per.

My ICF?? Good gawd, can you speak hinglish? :-)

ICF?

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Heh! You're discounting the effect of the Pacific ocean. The coldest temperature I recall in Utah was -19 degrees F. The coldest temp they expect here is around 0 F, which is uncommon. In Utah, from the first of December until March, if you got snow, and you most certainly did, it hit the ground and left by wearing out (probably sublimed---it rarely gets warm enough to melt). By sharp contrast, the longest we've seen snow on the ground here is about a week, and that was exceptional. One winter we saw no snow at all. None! Nada! I liked that.

It almost always gets above freezing during the daytime, generally low 40's or more. That's assuming there's no rain. If there is, it doesn't go below the mid 30's at night. The frost line here is a conservative 12", contrasted with the 30" in Utah, where we lived. This is not a bad place to live, assuming you don't mind moss growing on anything that stands still. Like our travel trailer.

H

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:47:04 GMT, the infamous "Harold and Susan Vordos" scrawled the following:

So you're as speedy as a 3-toed sloth in that cold weather up there, are ya?

Yeah, take pics as you complete each task. You'll have it to show folks precisely how you spent 30+ years of retirement, 'Arry.

That's fine. My email server balks only when someone sends fifty 4MB files at once. I'm on DSL, so downloads are quick-as-a-bunny, and there are no lousy latencies like the DISH modem gave me. It was actually quicker to upload three dozen 1kb files via a 28.8k modem on telephone lines than to do so via my Starband sat dish link. Feh! I love DSL, and the fee is less than half the price of satellite.

Insulating Concrete Forms. You poured your framing in foam blocks, right?

I think I'm closer to the ocean in GP, but we've had 15F low temps and snow on the ground for about 4 or 5 days since I've been here. Most of the time, the little bit of snow we get is melted by the next day.

And you, if you get any slower?

You're sorta close to Seattle. Were you aware that "Seattle" is a Native American word meaning "40 degrees and raining"? ;)

I look forward to the photos.

-- Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

The tragedy is I work on the house as if I was making parts for the missile.

Yeah, I know it's not necessary----but old habits are hard to break. Besides, what I know about building wouldn't fill a small thimble, so each thing is a new experience.

30? Optimism abounds!

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We just got hooked up about three weeks ago. Staggering difference compared to our old dial-up. I no longer have to delete large files.

Sigh! Oh, those! :-)

Yeah, we used Rastra. The shop was built from Ener-Grid, but they're one and the same, even made by some of the same individuals, which lead to a law suit. Ener-Grid is long gone.

10" thick blocks with an R-26 rating, plus a 4 hour fire rating. Damned neat stuff, Maynard, but you have to change the way you think when it comes time to hang things from walls.

That's pretty much the way it is here, too, aside from in the shadows. Those

100' plus tall trees cast a big one this time of the year.

I make a zinc solution that kills moss. I've been thinking of taking a bath in the stuff occasionally. Got moss growing between my toes, at least where they haven't grown webs.

I think Onalaska is about the same, except you substitute the 40 with 35. :-)

Well, one, actually. Took a shot of the front today. Not much to see, but it gives you an idea of what the place looks like. I'll get it off to you about midnight.

Harold

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:51:19 GMT, the infamous "Harold and Susan Vordos" scrawled the following:

I grok that in its entirety. I'm constantly asked to do things I've never done before. Quoting prices is the hard part of that while learning how to do something new is (almost) always fun and exciting.

As my tees say, "The more you gripe, the longer God makes you live."

It's definitely the way to go, price- and performance-wise.

"Just because I used them to build my house doesn't mean that I know WTF they are.", right?

Indubitably.

Yeah, your forest floor is seldom above 40, is it? I find that here.

Brrr!

Man, what a prolific photographer you are! It looks good with the Dryvit on it. My favorite thing is the 12' long 2x8 plank to the front door. Susan is truly a sport for that one, dude. I'll bet that grocery day is a barrel of fun.

-- Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

Hey, it beats climbing up to the door!

Truth be known, we don't live in the house, so it's no inconvenience. My shop, where we live, is likely as nice as most of the houses around us. We have a tiled shower, built in vacuum cleaner system, hydronic heat, quary tile coving on all walls, phones wired in many locations, as well as TV outlets in several locations, plus a monitored alarm system. The only thing wrong with this picture is I don't have full access to my machine tools because we live where they will be set up permanently.

Our needs are small. We listen to great music, classical (mostly the baroque), and jazz, Brubeck, MJQ, Monk, and the big bands. Life is good! We don't mind the plank. :-)

H

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:57:49 GMT, the infamous "Harold and Susan Vordos" scrawled the following:

Oh, I had thought you'd be moved in by now. I missed the importance of your "isn't taped and mudded yet" statement. Mea culpa.

I guess you built it for those times you were in the dog house. My, what a nice dog house you built, 'Arry!

Sacre bleu, I thought you were living in the shop area next to the tools, so you had access. Condolences on the lengthy disuse of your tools.

-- Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. -- Alvin Toffler