Fatt Miner
Plastic
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2020
Hey all,
I'm making a cheap/janky surface grinder out of a cheap bench grinder, lathe cross slide, and some steel tubing. I have the mounting method for the bench grinder and the magnetic chuck figured out, but I don't know a good way to raise and lower the cross slide. I was thinking of using a cheap 32mm cross slide from amazon, link below, but how should I make it travel that vertical distance? It's only a little more than an inch of height in travel, what would be a good way to do it? Obviously trying to keep the cost as low as possible, I'm a pretty novice machinist and this is really the first "tool" I've designed. I have access to an South Bend 9a lathe, a small horizontal mill, bench grinder, and a whole bunch of hand tools. I also have a fair amount of collected scrap material/raw stock.
What are everyone's suggestions?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08F2M6R3D/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A1RXNZT4AK0KHN&psc=1
I'm making a cheap/janky surface grinder out of a cheap bench grinder, lathe cross slide, and some steel tubing. I have the mounting method for the bench grinder and the magnetic chuck figured out, but I don't know a good way to raise and lower the cross slide. I was thinking of using a cheap 32mm cross slide from amazon, link below, but how should I make it travel that vertical distance? It's only a little more than an inch of height in travel, what would be a good way to do it? Obviously trying to keep the cost as low as possible, I'm a pretty novice machinist and this is really the first "tool" I've designed. I have access to an South Bend 9a lathe, a small horizontal mill, bench grinder, and a whole bunch of hand tools. I also have a fair amount of collected scrap material/raw stock.
What are everyone's suggestions?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08F2M6R3D/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A1RXNZT4AK0KHN&psc=1