Stainless steel KMG, Build

JT, by the time you're done with this you're going to have to donate it to a museum. Install it in a glass case. It's just too sweet to use. :D
 
MAn, this thing is looking so cool. I'll be ashamed to show my clone when it's done. Any info or specs on the spring piston you used on the tension arm ?
 
little mac said:
MAn, this thing is looking so cool. I'll be ashamed to show my clone when it's done. Any info or specs on the spring piston you used on the tension arm ?
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well its a 30 pound gas spring and seams just right which is good because that is the higest this size of spring goes up to. it has 1.5" of travel and is solid stainless steel. I payied allmost $70 bucks for it but if your not on a stainless steel power trip then its not that much, let me check to see how much one would be, one sec. ok i'm back, it would be $38 and its called the Miniature Gas Springs from McMaster-Carr and the non stainless steel one has a part number of 9417K2. it is just the right length as it does not extend past total travel of the tension arm but stops right at the top. thy have some other small gas springs listed but the problem is that even there smallest one seames to be about the same size as this mini one but its not as its messurments dont include the threaded ends. And this mini one is messured from mounting hole to mounting hole. but you must know that if you mount them like i have and you fallow the kmg clone plans you will notice that the 1/2-13 bolt holes dont line up so you will have to shift the slot in the bolts. the bolt on the reciver needs its slot shifted twords the motor .0625 and the tracking arm bolt needs to be shifted twords the grinding belt the same amount. this way you make up the .125 diffrence between the 2 holes. the plans show the reciver 1/2-13 spring mounting hole to be .75 away from the side of the reciver and if you look at the tracking arm it is .25 plus half the width of the arm its self which is .75 so that is .375 + .25 = .625. now subtract that from the distance of the lower hole and you get .75 - .625 = .125, and you split that distance in half agian which is .0625 that each slot needs to be shifted to make the gas spring stright. now if you your just using a normal spring then i would not see a problem leaving it shifted.
 
Hey JT... I know you're working on your stitcher and that you posted vids of your grinder but did I miss the thread with the final pics of your grinder? For this thread I think a final post with the specs and some final pics would be awesome, especially with your base (did you anodize it?)? Too many of us that are living vicariously through you are curious ;-)
 
I know i already posted but this is the most PIMPED OUT GRINDER ive ever seen . You have some serious tallent. kellyw
 
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