Bicycle grinder for blacksmithing – how mine works
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It can grind wood, steel, antlers etc. + polish steel to mirror finish. Use 60 and 400 grid emery cloth and a leather belt with coarse compound. Open the full video description for more information.
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The frame is made in wood (oak), steel and stone is taken from an old grinder, the bicycle is just an old normal one. I have made 3 grinders like this one over a period of two years. One rotation on the bike rotates the stone 3 times. I use emery cloth instead of the sandstone, because it remove material a lot quicker and also allowed me to grind materials like wood and antler. I have a few improvements in mind in case I will make another one at some point the future... like attaching the emery cloth with wedges instead of tape and refine the look - but over all does it work fine.
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A few quick questions:
1. Do you oil it?
Yes - I oil all moving parts once in a while. You can feel and hear whenever it is needed... In my case does the bicycle chain need oil a few weeks apart and the stone bearrings only need grease a year or more apart.
2. Why not make the setup able to free spin?
It is a lot safer that the grinder only runs when you run the bike. Also handy that you can run the stone both ways and that you don"t need to wait for the stone to stop spinning. Also makes the design easier to make.
3. Why not make it run faster and why not add gear options?
I didn"t consider it important enough and it also makes the design a lot more complicated to make. I use pressure against the stone instead of gear/speed - it works well, but I would like to eksperiment a bit with speed and or gear if I at some point make a new grinder.
4. Why not cut the emery cloth in an angle?
I have found 90 degrees to be the strongest. If I cut it at an angle is the emery cloth corner more likely to bend/more likely to catch what I am ginding and the emery cloth fall off - it is after all just hold on by tape.
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Location: Denmark - my own properly.
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Video gear: Nikon D7000, Nikon 50 1.8, Røde videomacro, iMovie.
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Author: Author Link: Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDeoCNRuKOk Category: Channel Name: Bertram - Craft and Wilderness Channel ID: 1 Tags: bicycle,grinder,for,blacksmithing,blacksmithing tools,grinder,belt grinder,diy,homemade,no power,safe grinder,mechanical machine,bicycle grinder,cheap grinder,self reliance,survival,bushcraft,wood craft,woodcraft,foot powered,KNIFE MAKING,AXE MAKING,TOOL MAKING,
9 thoughts on “Bicycle grinder for blacksmithing – how mine works”
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If that changed into as soon as a bone/antler you had been grinding, please set up on a camouflage because of inhaling bone mud can position off cancer 😬
Right here’s pleasant. It’s good to possibly well also remark and grind issues on the identical time!
this proper sigma grindset wants no electricity!
You are truly a man of the earth. I luxuriate in your work so critical and learn a lot from your calm affected person method of doing issues!
Hi! How attain you disconnect the pulley shaft to substitute the belt file? or the leather strap?
May possibly possibly aloof add gearing bro… imagine that ?
AMAZ!NGTHANKS I will make oneGOD Bless you and YOURS
Tidy! I'm having a be aware to invent a grinding wheel myself for my hand software handiest workshop, and here’s entertaining! Right here's an thought- why no longer hold an adjustable, smaller tensioning wheel that spins freely? That method, it is most likely you’ll possibly well also use a sanding belt held in notify by tension somewhat than cutting and gluing emery cloth.Since the belt is continuous, this could effect away with the jam of the work catching the sandpaper, while also requiring much less work to substitute and position up for varied grits. I assert at this point it'd be a pedal belt sander in desire to a grindwheel. Meals for conception!