8" bench grinder wheels - Where to buy good ones?

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Hey, I just bought an 8" bench grinder, and would like to find some good 1" wheels for sharpening using the Wolverine system. The grinder came with a 20 and 60 grit wheel, so I'll tough it out with that until I get something finer, and use my 1000 grit waterstone for final dress.

Hey...do I need anything finer?

Anyways, I'm looking for 8" diameter, 1" thick, 5/8" arbor. Anyone know of a good source?

Thanks

Karl :)
 
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Hmmm....looking at those wheels, they are rated for 3450 RPM grinders. Mine's 3600 RPMs. You think they'd explode? I could always hook my vacuum to the same outlet and turn it on while grinding to suck off enough power to bring the grinder down to 3450. heh [:o)]

Also, if I leave the 60 grit wheel on, for roughing, what do you think is better for finishing, 80 or 120 grit?

I'm assuming that the Oneway wheels are 5/8" arbor, too. I should probably call them, huh?
 
Originally posted by JWW
<br />http://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/Norton-White-Grinding-Wheel-P38C20.aspx
I bought from these people, great price and quick delivery.
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Hey, that looks like the ticket! Can't go wrong with Norton, right?! Thanks, Jaydub....er, dubdub. [:p]
 
Another question, then. If I buy the 150 grit wheel and leave the 60 grit wheel on my grinder, can I skip over the 100 grit wheel like that, or am I going to 'de-temper' my chisels by grinding for 3 hours on the 150 stone?
 
I think your not gonna have a problem. 150 may be fine, but if your tool has a good shape already, your only gonna need to touch it up and that will only take a minute. I have a 120 on mine and it's a slow speed grinder. And I never spend more than a minute sharpening my tool.
 
Like most things we all have our preferences and what works best for us. I wondered and was confused by all of the different setups for grinding. There are an infinite number of setups/wheels/grinders, etc.

I went with a ryobi 8" grinder and left the fine "gray" wheel on and replaced the course wheel with the norton white 100 grit.

I did this for two reasons; one was that I still have/use carbon steel tools that I can sharpen on the "gray" wheel and if I need to reshape any of my HSS tools then I can carefully do so. The second was that I can touch up my HSS on the "white" wheel.

<b>Disclaimer!</b> I am still fairly new to turning and I am still finding my way and by no means am I advocating my setup as correct or right but it works for me very well. I looked and listened to all of the different choices/ways that this can be done and I finally just had to jump in and go with something and it just happened to work.
 
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