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Hi John No problem at all. I hope you find the spring you are looking for. Mounting the spring if you can find a similar gate closer is quite smple BTW - if you find something similar to the "gate closer" the spring bases supplied were perfect for use & can be used to mount the spring. I...

Hi John I dropped in at my local hardware store on the way home and took a picture of a "gate closer" in the packaging, exactly the same as the one I used for the tracking arm spring. As mentioned above this was a lucky find - the only thing I needed to do was to cut of the right angle...

Hi John If you look back a few posts you will see that the tension arm spring was about 1/3rd shorter than the current one - you will see that with the shorter spring fitted the tracking arm rested almost parallel to the top of the grinder, whereas now it stands at about a 40 degree angle...

Hi Everyone The perspex enclosure for the VFD is pretty much complete, although having heard from some guys who have similar VFD's I believe they can get quite hot - so I am going to add a computer power supply fan with filters to the enclosure to circulate cool air from outside through the...

Hi Everyone A quick update on the build - I am currently busy making a perspex box for the VFD, despite a lot of searching I was not able to find a ready made enclosure which would fit the VFD - without being Grossly oversized, so the perspex option became reality. It was fairly cheap to have...

Hi Keith I can't see the voltage specifications of the Radioshack transformer listed, except for what appears to be 25V printed on the top left corner of the transformer packaging in the photo on Chris's site. Since his diagram shows that the transformer has a center tapped secondary winding...

Hi ARCustom I'm not sure why the price for the powertwist belt is so high, the exchange rate doesn't explain it, maybe "middle-man" markup? I tried to find if there are alternative manufacturers to Fenner who make similair link belts, as there seems to be only a single distributor of the Fenner...

Hi Everyone I wish I was able to tell you all that it is finally finished, however my day job interfered with my grinder build schedule and as a result I haven't done much this week on the grinder, I managed to mount the motor, and fit a drive belt (as you can see I didn't get one of the...

Just one word comes to mind - WOW!! That is really stunning work. Rick

Hi ARCustom Thanks for the recommendation, I have found a local supplier for Fenner drive - Power Twist link belts, I will go there tomorrow and see if I can get one to fit. Bye for now Regards Rick

Hi Everyone I was lucky enough to spend the morning yesterday in his engineering workshop with one of the guys from my knifeclub, he made up a stub axle for the "contact wheel", finished the drive shaft off by cutting the keyways, and made some end caps for the stub axles. I was able to use...

Grinder update Hi Everyone I just realised that I have some recent pictures from last weekend of the grinder on my Blackberry, and since I have a couple of hours to kill at the airport, I did a couple of quick edits and uploaded them. See below for grinder progress as of last weekend. I...

Hi Chris My grinder is actually mostly made out of steel (10mm & 15mm bright mild steel) the only part of the grinder that is aluminium is the toolarm (since I couldn't find the correct size mild steel square bar), and now also the base plate. I changed the two "Feet" for a square aluminium...

Goeie Dag Andries - Welkom by Knifedogs I'm not sure if I'm looking at the same pictures as you, but I don't see any miserable attempts, your knives are Stunning! Rick Afonso Cape Town

WOW - Awesome Dagger Can;t wait to see it when finished!! Rick

Hi Fred Can I have 531 please Thanks Rick

Hi Michael Welcome to Knifedogs!

Hi Rick Welcome to the Dog patch, Stay safe over there From another Rick

Hi Luke Welcome to a great place - Knifedogs I was in a similar position to you about a month and a half ago. Since joining knifedogs, I have learned a lot, and had a lot of advice given in terms of building my KMG grinder etc. This place is great, You will enjoy it. Rick

Nice work, I like them, and that sheath is very neat Welcome Rick