Grinder out of balance

[Teniko]

My grinder wheels are running out of balance. I have used the diamond stone to true up the face, taken off and remounted, checked for "ping", and it still runs out of balance. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Dave.

 

[dfurlano]

You can either buy a system like a Oneway wheel balance or try to balancing the wheel on your own.

 

[Russb]

I have both a hand-held diamond stone and the Wolverine Dressing Jig. I feel that the hand-held stone can bounce on the wheel increasing the chance of an out of balance wheel. I use the Wolverine Dressing Jig every 3 or 4 months to true the wheel. I use the hand-held stone for cleaning and because the Wolverine Dressing Jig works from a "fixed" position it is great for getting the wheel back to true. I do more than pens so I sharpen very often.

 

[Mudder]

What type of grinder is it?
When you say out of balance are you saying that the wheels are egg shaped out of balance or do they appear to wobble?

I have a woodcraft slow speed grinder that drove me nuts with wheel wobble. I tried everything I could think of and finally decided to take the paper off the wheels as a last try before I replaced them and found that removing the paper did the trick.

 

[Rifleman1776]

How old are the wheels? Have they run smoothly up to now? If they are new, one or both could be warped. I returned a wheel to CS and was told that imperfect wheels are not uncommon. I put the wheel on three different motor/mandrel set-ups to determine whether the fault was my equipment or the wheel. Test yours on another motor if you can.

 

[Teniko]

Thanks for the replies. The grinder is a slow speed grinder from woodcraft (sorry, could not find brand name), and untill recently it ran true. The wobble is a back and forth wobble, not oblong wobble. I will try taking the paper off and then take a trip to woodcraft for a replacement. Dan sugested balancing the wheel myself. Any tips on how?

 

[Rifleman1776]

You can buy expensive balancing kits. But since you are within personal griping distance of Woodcraft, take it to them.

 

[Jim in Oakville]

I bought the One way balancing system, I love it!