Recent content by David Danek

Tank you Anthony. Your willingness to share from your experience is much lyrics apreciated. You claim to be new. But I'm just starting out with nothing as far as experience goes.

Awesome information. Thanks for the reply. All the people on this forum are the most gratis with there wisdom of any forum I've belonged to. Thanks you all and Merry Christmas to all of you.

OK that first design, It has 2, 6 inch wheels in the original plans. I saw someone on here suggest an 8 inch contact wheel. A guy on ebay in the US has a package with a 12 inch contact wheel. I'm a little confused what would be best. Early in my delving into knife making it seemed that bigger...

I think i'll go with the three step pullies and a pillow block with a long shaft to accomodate a disk sander on the side. I saw a grinder a guy made with an assembly that had the 2 2" contact wheels and a platen on one side and could flip it over to use a contact wheel. He had made the whole...

Interesting. I did see a post a while ago about that same contact wheel from Grizzly but instead of machining it for bearings, he mounted it permanently on a shafts that ran through a pillow block.

these are the two designs I am looking at. Have the plans for the first one.

I wish i hadthe funds to buy a new motor and a high end vfd. I was able to post a pix. of the motor plate. At this time i cant do much more for a motor. Got this one real cheap, and now saving up $450 to get a good set of wheels for the grinder on ebay. Unfortunately they are in the U.S. so the...

Hope this works. The plate from the motor.

Problem is, that speed controller is also a phase converter. Im sure that is what boosts its price higher. I have 220 Volt in my shop so no need to convert the voltage at all. But thanks.

Apologies, it is a 220Volt motor. hard typing on a cell phone. :)

Hello, I am in the process of picking up parts to build a knife grinder. I just managed to pick up a 4HP 22V motor. Its quite heavy and large, so I would prefer to have a speed controller then move the motor to switch belt locations on pullies. I found this on Ebay and was wondering if...

Hello. I am brand new to this craft. Im in the process of gathering all the items I need to build a knife grinder. Looking forward to touching base with others who have much more wisdom then I. Hunting, fishing, woodwork, welding are amoungst my hobbies at present. Thanks