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Post by Psycho on Dec 8, 2016 22:09:51 GMT -5
Who has the best prices on 6" Diamond grinding wheels ? Finally got my hands on an arbor and am slowly building a cabbing unit. Also will need spin on polishing wheels for both ends one left hand 1/4x20 threaded and one right hand 1/4x20 threaded. Thanks for the help and thanks to manofglass for the arbor and geode lol.
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ziggy
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ziggy on Dec 8, 2016 22:41:19 GMT -5
Who has the best prices on 6" Diamond grinding wheels ? Finally got my hands on an arbor and am slowly building a cabbing unit. Also will need spin on polishing wheels for both ends one left hand 1/4x20 threaded and one right hand 1/4x20 threaded. Thanks for the help and thanks to manofglass for the arbor and geode lol.My hubby just built a 6" cabbing machine. That's my daughter using it below. The wheels are not on the right side yet even. He did everything as inexpensively as possible. He bought wheels from Hans Lapidary on ebay. The grits above 280 were $45.00 each and the lower grits (280, 60) each cost I think $47.00 (free shipping on the slow boat from China.) He was quite happy with the 280, 600 and the 1200 grit wheels which perform nicely, but the 60 grit was a joke. He ended up re gritting that one right away. He still needs 140 and 3000 grit wheels to complete the cabber. Hans sold out on their 140 grit wheels so he ordered one from Top grit (ebay seller) in Lithuania. Same price as Hans but $10.00 shipping added. Should be here soon. Looks like he will be buying the 3000 grit from the eastern Europeans as well. He re gritted the 60 grit down to 35 grit. Then we will have a 35 grit, 140 grit and a 280 grit on the left side, and a 600 grit, 1200 grit, and 3000 grit on the polishing side. This would be considered an aggressive grit set. Total cost of wheels (including the 100 carats of diamond and epoxy used in the re grit) $281.00 We plan on re gritting when needed. Way cheaper than some other routes one could take to the destination. Hopefully the Lithuanian ones will work as hoped. We are on a fixed income and we budget for one wheel a month until we have them all All we have left to actually buy is the 3000 grit. Hubby left enough shaft to mount double wheels or an extra grit or two down the road. Can't help with the polishing wheels as we use a dedicated polishing unit.
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zarguy
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Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
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Post by zarguy on Dec 8, 2016 22:50:07 GMT -5
ziggy, Are all the wheels soft (belt over sponge rubber)? Or did you re diamond a hard wheel? If it's a hard wheel, I'd love to hear how it went. I re diamond my soft wheels only, actually they're belts on expando drums. Lynn
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ziggy
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Post by ziggy on Dec 8, 2016 22:53:04 GMT -5
ziggy , Are all the wheels soft (belt over sponge rubber)? Or did you re diamond a hard wheel? If it's a hard wheel, I'd love to hear how it went. I re diamond my soft wheels only, actually they're belts on expando drums. Lynn No, they're soft. You posted in my thread I made about re gritting that one with 35 grit. Remember? I did a double coat of epoxy and a heavy coat of grit.
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Post by Psycho on Dec 8, 2016 23:31:28 GMT -5
Thanks for the info ziggy
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