Mounting a belt grinder

[allan lanigan]

I am just finishing my new homemade belt grinder and am looking for suggestions on mounting. Bench mount or on a pedestal?

 

[steierknives]

Either will work as long as it is at the right heighth for you to work and the grinder can't move when you start leaning into it. Mine is on a bench.

 

[Sweany]

You cain't pile enough crap on a pedestal!

 

[allan lanigan]

Sweany,that may be the best reason to go with the pedestal

 

[Raymond Richard]

Allen, I'll second that! I just ordered a KMG and its going on a pedestal with wheels. I bet I'll still find room to stack some crap on it.

 

[allan lanigan]

Richard,thanks for the suggestion,I have my bandsaw rigged like that, makes it easy to move out of the way a big plus in a small shop besides that i,m not sure where i want it located...

 

[David Schott]

standing next to my KMG scares me....like a nice big felsh cutting bandsaw....40 grit goes through skin soooooo fast. I keep mine on a bench...err...computer desk...notice the industrial lighting in the background:

 

[J. MacDonald]

I've got one each. I have a KMG on a steel pedestal and another one on a bench. I like the pedestal mount better myself. But the pedestal has to be massive enough. Mine variable KMG is mounted to the optional 1/2" motor mount plate, then bolted to a pedestal that is 18" square 1/2" plates top and bottom coupled with a 6"x8" I beam with 3/8" thick parts. The whole assembly weighs a vouple hundred pounds and holds in place just fine when I grind hard.

The one on the workbench is a step pulley KMG with the motor mounted in the same position, although both grinder and motor are bolted to the bench without the optional motor mount plate. For some reason it just doesn't feel as solid and precise as the pedestal mounted one. Both are roughly the same height.

Go figure.

 

[Sweany]

Alan, yeah depends on your outlook.

I use an old cookie sheet to hold the blades I'm working on at the time. It seperates them from the other crap.

I didn't want to bolt the grinder stand to the floor so the second shelf of the bench is full of steel, odds and ends. I figure there is about 500 lbs of steel, in the big bench. I also have an old furnace fan mounted next to the grinder and a water bucket under the platen. the furnace fan sucks the floaters out the window and the water bucket catches the big stuff.

It is really surpriseing how much better I can breath after a session at the grinder with this setup.



On my sit down grinder I have aabout 250 lbs of steel on the second shelf. neither one move around much.

 

[Raymond Richard]

A friend of mine gave me stand that he had made up that would hold an outboard motor that I'm pretty sure can be modified to hold the grinder. Its got a shelf underneath that will hold a 5 gallon bucket. If need be there will be room on that shealf to add somemore weight. Its suppossed to ship today. I'm hoping it makes it here this week.

 

[allan lanigan]

Thanks guys,good feedback I picked up a metal stand 18" X26 inches, putting wheels on the back,they will only touch the floor when the front is lifted so i can move it about,also picked up some weights from a exercise machine to give it some mass..got it all from a scrap yard...

 

[David Schott]

Every time I switch tooling arms I am amazed they are actually 1.5X1.5" solid......I dropped one on my foot and it was not pretty....not pretty at all....