Homemade Tool Post Grinder

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Homemade tool post grinder.

Dumore tool post grinders can be mounted on the compound of a lathe in a matter of minutes and have also been mounted on other machine tools including planers. Reason i was going to make one is that replacement spindles for tool post grinders are available pretty reasonable but they only hold stones on threaded arbors and i wanted to be able to hold drills endmills or arbors for stones. Here you can see a few pictures of. Homemade bench grinder tool post constructed from steel plate bar stock threaded rod nut and washer.

10 05 2007 12 04 am 16. Next take some 3 4 wide metal pipe strap and bend it into a u shape centered on one of the 1 4 holes around the dremel body. You want to mount the grinder with the holder as close to the face block as possible. So i just built one myself.

Cylindrical parts can be machined and finish ground in the same set up. A dumore tool post grinder turns a standard lathe into a versatile accurate internal and external grinder. Instead i bought a dumore tool post grinder for my immediate need.