CountryBoy19
Stainless
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2012
- Location
- Bedford, IN
I have the chance to pick up a portable Sunnen hone set with nearly a dozen stones for a stupid cheap price...
I may end up rebuilding my tailstock at some point, including boring and honing. Will the Sunnen portables do an adequate job or does it have to be the stationary units that are rigid setups?
ETA, this would likely see more use than just a 1-time tailstock hone-job. The price to get into a Sunnen hone is usually cost-prohibitive so I've never considered it. Even the portable I'm looking at sells for ~$500 on ebay with only a handful of stones. Am I thinking correctly that if one can be had for a fraction of that it would be stupid not to get it?
I may end up rebuilding my tailstock at some point, including boring and honing. Will the Sunnen portables do an adequate job or does it have to be the stationary units that are rigid setups?
ETA, this would likely see more use than just a 1-time tailstock hone-job. The price to get into a Sunnen hone is usually cost-prohibitive so I've never considered it. Even the portable I'm looking at sells for ~$500 on ebay with only a handful of stones. Am I thinking correctly that if one can be had for a fraction of that it would be stupid not to get it?