"Portable" grinder stand

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BHuij

BHuij

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Anyone have a grinder stand that they really love? I'm working in a tiny 1-car garage shop space (which also has, you know, a car in it), so I'm always looking for better ways to walk the line between compact storage and easy access to stuff I use on a regular basis.

Since I'm getting ready to upgrade my current high-speed bench grinder with aluminum oxide wheels, to a Rikon slow speed 8" with a CBN wheel for sharpening my lathe tools, I figure now might be a good time to get a stand and thus free up some bench space.

I'm picturing something along these lines, a stand on casters that I can stick down to a lower height and roll underneath the worktable when not in use, but easily roll out, raise to working height, and use when my tools need sharpened.

Anyone have a stand they like that would do this?
 
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I mount many of my benchtop tools down to a piece of 3/4-inch MDF. The ones I use most often find their way on top of a small cabinet/table (re-purposed kitchen cabinet). The others live underneath or in cabinets until they are needed. I have storage in or under most of the work spaces and tools I have in my shop. I've also seen several videos about people that build something that allows their grinder to hinge up for use from underneath a work surface to save space -- kind of like the in-cabinet shelves made for storing stand mixers. - Dave
 
I got a stand that looks like this:


and it sits on a rolling base like this:


I added a panel on the front that I hang a brush, angle-setting jigs, and suchlike.

I just bought and returned a Rikon slow-speed grinder (the 1/2 HP model with 1" wheels). When I mounted my CBN wheels the vibration was terrible - both front/back and left/right. Those are wheels that ran perfectly true on my old Craftsman grinder. I was using the WoodturnersWonders spherical washers and machined spacer washers. My suspicion is that Rikon went cheap on the design at some point - the shaft used to have a machined flange that extended into the space where the wheel sits. Now that flange is inside the motor housing, and there's a mushroom-shaped bushing which doesn't even look like it has been machined. I got it at Woodcraft, took the first one back for replacement with another, that was just as bad so I returned it for a refund and continue to use my 25 year old Craftsman.
 
I have the advantage of being able to buy in person at CSUSA's storefront, so I'm guessing they'll be happy to let me put the CBN wheel on and test it out in the store.

I like your recommendation for that stand though, might go that route.
 
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