New 2 X 72'' Grinder

The cold has kept me from knife making but now that it's warming up, I put together this grinder I've been gathering parts for. So now I can get to work.
This is a EERF grinder , the CAD drawings can be downloaded from http://www.wilmontgrinders.com/Pages/EERFGrinder.aspx
Big thanks to the guys at Wilmont for putting these out there. Saved me a ton of design work.
The design is all based on 1/2'' plate which makes for a very solid machine. Shoot the supplied DXF files to your favorite laser or hydrojet company and presto, all the plate nicely cut and ready for some drilling and tapping.
There's lots of wip's on the interweb so I won't get into all the gory details.
The motor is a 2hp single phase and with the 6.25 drive wheel gets me a little over 2800sfpm. All the wheels I made myself at work with aluminum I got from Cal.

Nothing real fancy here but a good base to expand on.
Cost so far:
Laser plate $275
Motor $250
Misc.(fancy handles, bearings and such.) $200









Tried her out today on some fillet blades. Seems to work pretty good. There's a few grinding technique changes I'll have to make getting used to her.

Thanks for looking.

 

Looks like it will serve you well Joe

 

Whoa Joe, impressive! Does she track nice and true?

 

It tracks really well Jim. It has a slight vibration though. The tracking wheel had some voids which has caused a balance issue. I'll just make a new one instead of farting around trying to balance it.

 

That's looks pretty sweet Joe. I love my WEG. I think you have lots of good use out of it and fire-engine red is awesome!

 

I did the exact same thing, they work pretty good. Yours looks a lot better than mine though.

 

Very nice! I've got the plans as well, just saving up to get them cut.

 

wow that looks pretty awesome.

 

Thanks for the compliments guys. I'm still waiting for the new belts to arrive and see what this grinder can really do. Even with the worn out belt Cal gave me, this grinder cuts 4 times faster.

 

Sweet looking grinder. Someday I'll upgrade to something like this. For now, I'll run my grizzly. Now the question we all want to ask... What's hiding under that tarp?

 

Can we guess?

1974 El Camino with a blower.

Dan

 

Icho was the closest...

That'd be my pride and joy. A 1964 Plymouth Fury.

 

Very good, 1967 be my birthday.

 

Deadly. Is that an actual photo on the track of you? If so, what's it run?

 

That is a photo of me at SIR. The best to date was a 10.86@123mph.

 

Nice!

 

Sweet Cheeks of Buddha! that's pretty! and the car too!

 

I get the feeling that Joe doesn't do anything 1/2 way...unless that is...driving his car with only 1/2 of the wheels touching the ground.

LOL

Dan