Plans for vertical belt grinders?

[dmelton]

Recently, I've seen pictures of some homebuilt vertical belt grinders. Do any of you have plans you would share on how you built your homemade vertical grinders? I'm specifically looking for a 2x72 2-wheel setup with a simple tension spring using common everyday type of items. I'm not ready to spend 150$ on a rubber coated contact wheel yet, I just want a vertical sander with a platen and a tool rest. I'm thinking of something out of wood and angle iron since I have some old bed frame peices that look like they might work. I don't know how the washing machine motor I have would hook up to the wheel, what sort of attachment and wheels have you home-builders used?
Thanks,
Derek Melton
Clinton, MS.



[This message has been edited by dmelton (edited 02-21-2001).]

 

[Michael Bennett]

http://www.keenjunk.com/sketchbk/ob90319a.htm

There used to be others. The Aardvark Grinder plans used to be on the net, but most URLs are dead.

Also, there was a forumite name Robert Fink (or Frink, I believe) who had a page and sold cast aluminum disks.

Popular Mechanics had a series of encyclopedias in the 1950s that illustrated a 2x48. Here's a picture:

Perhaps others have some?

[This message has been edited by Michael Bennett (edited 02-21-2001).]

 

[mikeS]

Wayne Goddard's book The Wonder of Knifemaking, shows several ways to make a grinder.

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