8-10" contact wheel source?

Will52100

Will52100

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My KMG's 8" contact wheel let go, a big chunk of rubber turned loose and came flying out, this weekend.

I've been looking around and see some in the 100'ish dollar range, but they've got an 1.19" bearing ID size and for my tooling arms I need a 1/2" ID.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Serrated...der-Sander-Dynamically-balanced-/232870359435

Has anybody used these wheels before? I'm thinking if they are any good to maybe turn a bushing on the lathe.

Ideas?

Thanks.
 
Will52100 said:
My KMG's 8" contact wheel let go, a big chunk of rubber turned loose and came flying out, this weekend.

I've been looking around and see some in the 100'ish dollar range, but they've got an 1.19" bearing ID size and for my tooling arms I need a 1/2" ID.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Serrated...der-Sander-Dynamically-balanced-/232870359435

Has anybody used these wheels before? I'm thinking if they are any good to maybe turn a bushing on the lathe.

Ideas?

Thanks.
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What are your plans for the wheel? I have been looking for a scrap one that I can bore out for my surface grinder. I would strip the rubber and just use the aluminum hub.
 
Get this one. $67 shipped with bearings installed. Can't beat the price. I have it, works great. That have all kinds of sizes. May be some customs/import charges though
 
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Thanks, that may work.

No plans at present, if I can get ahold of Beumont, I might have it re covered, depending cost.

I wouldn't go for just the aluminum hub for a surface grinder, you need a little give, If I remember rite mine's a 90 Durometer wheel. I suppose it would work, just be very slow, not sure if it'd be more accurate or not.
 
Scaniaman said:
Get this one. $67 shipped with bearings installed. Can't beat the price. I have it, works great. That have all kinds of sizes. May be some customs/import charges though
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I don't see the link....but I can see that this post was edited by a moderator. Is there a reason this link wasn't allowed? Just want to know so I don't mess up in the future.
 
Will52100 said:
Thanks, that may work.

No plans at present, if I can get ahold of Beumont, I might have it re covered, depending cost.

I wouldn't go for just the aluminum hub for a surface grinder, you need a little give, If I remember rite mine's a 90 Durometer wheel. I suppose it would work, just be very slow, not sure if it'd be more accurate or not.
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There’s been a few people go the aluminum wheel route with great success. I think that’s the way I’ll go eventually as well.
I don’t think give is necessarily a good thing on a surface grinder.
 
Randydb said:
I don't see the link....but I can see that this post was edited by a moderator. Is there a reason this link wasn't allowed? Just want to know so I don't mess up in the future.
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you can state where to find it but not post an outside link.

But we know outside links are posted all the time and there is very selective removing of them
 
Currently I use a stone wheel and run a belt over it. Works great but I’m wanting to go wider then 1”. The plan was to just turn one out of steel and hog out the center to lighten it up.
 
I had my 5" Beaumont wheel come apart a while back too.
JT if a 5" wheel (4" of aluminum) will do what you want PM your address.
 
I have a 10 inch Ameribrade contact wheel, it has somewhat excessive vibration in it. It's usable but barely, I contacted them about it months ago I was told I'd get a new one when the wheels stocked and I've never heard anything since. The rest of my grinder gear from them has been fine though.
 
I had the same thing happen to my 8 inch soft MG wheel from USA.Hadn't used it for a while and when it tried, it disintegrated. The s is the solid aluminum wheel.
JTknives said:
What are your plans for the wheel? I have been looking for a scrap one that I can bore out for my surface grinder. I would strip the rubber and just use the aluminum hub.
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Spalted said:
I think I will try one of these soon. Anybody here used one ?
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I have a 12" from them. The first one ran true but it had a bit of a dish in the center of the poly surface which would create sorta a smiley face shaped bevel if the blade was kept in one spot, but they were quick to replace it even before I sent back the first and were also very nice to deal with. The second one was almost perfect but still had a very slight dip in the center, so I just ran it on my grinder while tracking the belt far off each side and sanded off a slight amount from the left and right sides/corners while it spun, which was easy enough to do. Now it's nice and flat and works great.


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Thanks. I got a quick response from KMG and they will recover/re tire the wheel for 142$, plus 18$ shipping, so a total cost of about 180$ both ways. Not sure, I very rarely hollow grind, especially on an 8" wheel, mostly use it for hogging and some profiling. Of course the KMG wheel lasted nearly 10 years, not sure if a vulcanized rubber wheel will last that long.

Thanks for the suggestions, got some figuring and reading to do.
 
Will52100 said:
Thanks. I got a quick response from KMG and they will recover/re tire the wheel for 142$, plus 18$ shipping, so a total cost of about 180$ both ways. Not sure, I very rarely hollow grind, especially on an 8" wheel, mostly use it for hogging and some profiling. Of course the KMG wheel lasted nearly 10 years, not sure if a vulcanized rubber wheel will last that long.

Thanks for the suggestions, got some figuring and reading to do.
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Now get a quote directly from the re coating business, Contact Rubber Corporation (CRC)

putting Beaumont in the middle just ads cost and problems.
 
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