Hello welcome to Enots engineering Im Alan in this episode we'll grind the
first lathe tool on the new grinder we start by modifying the diamonds to
fit the tool holder so let's go into the workshop This is a diamond for dressing grinding
wheels the diamonds the black thing in the end you can also get diamonds like
this this is just a block and inside there lots of diamond capture between steel
what I will do with this one is just take off about a quarter of an inch off the bottom
because it's too long to fit the Machine Ive got
This is the holder for it
I've fitted be diamond into the holder the
holder fits into the slide
anti-clockwise because I'm dressing on this side I want the force to be going down not up
otherwise if the force is going up it could start lifting the table
if its going down its going to push the table down
Turn on the vacuum
Ive got a fine feed here which will feed the diamond in
Thats just dressed the front of the wheel now swap that for the lathe tool holder
I'll put an angle on the table of 8 degrees
Turn the tool around to about 30 degrees
move it a bit closer
To go passed I will use the fine feed to feed it in.
You can just see there that the grinding machine has just ground the surface in the middle
each side is still rough I might get a better angle on that
I'll have to try and follow the existing angle because I don't know what that was
it looks about 9 degrees on that
just at the bottom so I will set the table angle
just lower the table a little bit so its about three or four degrees on it now
pull it back in
you can see now if its in focus that's been ground all the way except the very
tip on that face so what I've got is the top the top face to grind
put the tool back in the holder
because of cutting on this side of the wheel I've got to put the wheel the
opposite way which is that way so we're still pushing down on the grinding
fine feed into the wheel
just take the tool out.
it's quite useful being able to keep the whole
table towards you so you can see what you've actually done you can see there
on the top I've just left that old part of grinding so its ground the face there
the surface finish looks rougher than he actually is it would be interesting to
see the finish of a diamond wheel but before I can do that I've got to make a holder for it.
Oh well that's it for now I hope you've enjoyed it and hope tosee you next time
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