Contact wheels

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Ellison

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Just starting to make a new grinder. some suggestions on what some of you guys have used for contact wheels (other than the obvious buying them for $40 a piece)
 
The the best of my knowledge the sunray wheels are urethane, which will break down with heat faster than rubber. Just something to keep in mind.

If you want a basic, inexpensive wheel, you can get a grizzly wheel as replacement parts for about 70 bucks. It doesn't have a bearing in it.

Pop's sells some nice wheels, trugrit sells Bader wheels or you can order your wheels from the man - Rob Frink.

I'd also like to know which ones cost $40.
 
flatgrinder said:
Try sunray-inc.com :thumbup:
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my secret baqgan store has wheels like that but the berring arnt installed, just a hole thats milled just a bit bigger then the center to keep the barrings on the outside and not move. and to think thay onley sell them for a buck an inch accross. thay onley had 4" wide ones when i went there yesterday. i could buy everything i needed to make a grinder from there. one whole wall of boxes of pullys and gears. another of motors. and steel.
 
the smaller ones are 40.......im not talking about the 8" ones....though i need one of them also
 
I know no one wants to hear it again, but....

The heart and soul of the grinder is in the platen and contact wheel. Regardless of how good the motor is, how great a job you did building the grinder,or how fast/slow it runs..........IT IS THE WHEEL/PLATEN THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK A GRINDER.

Buying a wheel made for this purpose is far smarter money than one that is modified.
I've stated my point, and will leave it at that.
Stacy
 
I have Burr King and would like a larger wheel but am not sure who to contact for one that fits.
 
bladsmth said:
I know no one wants to hear it again, but....

The heart and soul of the grinder is in the platen and contact wheel. Regardless of how good the motor is, how great a job you did building the grinder,or how fast/slow it runs..........IT IS THE WHEEL/PLATEN THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK A GRINDER.

Buying a wheel made for this purpose is far smarter money than one that is modified.
I've stated my point, and will leave it at that.
Stacy
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im with you 100%
 
I need a contact wheel for the grinder I'm building too. I'm blessed with a wood lathe and I have some phenolic rounds I'm going to make a drive wheel and a tracking wheel with. I bought some high speed sealed bearings off Ebay a few years ago and still have em rat holed and they're just the right size. A friend sold me a six inch aluminum wheel that needs to be recovered but it just has a 5/8" bore and isn't set up with bearings so I don't see how I could use it as a contact wheel. I though about getting an extra tool bar and taking it to a machine shop and seeing how much it cost to have them drill it for the shaft and counter bore it on each side for the bearings. That sound like it would work??
 
Micheal, what I've seen done on wheels like that is folks setup one or two pillowblock bearings on a plate and run a shaft through them and fasten it to the wheel.
 
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