Saturday, April 20, 2013

Grinder conversion

After Hoot and i talked about surface speed i decided it get an adapter for my bench grinder $20.
I all ways though that it was too fast 2850 1/3hp.
But the wheels i have now are small so a low surface speed .
Works a treat easier to transfer the wax more friction and light pressure to polish the wax .
I polished a test pipe and it worked great.
And it's almost silent i can polish at all hours of the night yea.
But hang on tight and never loose concentration for a second 1/3hp will shoot it across the shed.

Left wheel has my old wax on it second from the right has carnauba wax 

Finally made the wax melt.


1 comment:

  1. Nice work dude, glad it worked out so well. Man, you'll be 24hr/day pipe-head now! You need to sound proof a small area down there so nary a mouse will stir at 3am :) Holy moly you melted that block! Some of the old-timers talked about seasoning buffs e.g. the buffs get impregnated with whatever compound you are using over time and just keep getting better. If you melted that much wax on you may well have seasoned that buff nicely.

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