Well, after six months or so of reading and digesting forum threads, looking at other conversions, talking to others that have done the conversion and finally collaborating with Craig Brewer my surface grinder conversion is done! :biggrin:
I ordered my contact wheel from Sunray. It is six inches in diameter, one and one quarter inches wide with a durometer rating of 60D which makes it probably a little harder than 100 on the "A" scale. Like Dave of Great Lakes, I ordered it with the X-Tread pattern. I'm running one inch wide belts.
Craig did most of the mechanical design and all of the welding and fabricating. We finished putting it all together Wednesday and did a test run. From the first flip of the switch it tracked perfectly and we were both amazed at the quality of the finish.
Many thanks to all that provided information for this project and special thanks to Craig for all his help.
Ted
I ordered my contact wheel from Sunray. It is six inches in diameter, one and one quarter inches wide with a durometer rating of 60D which makes it probably a little harder than 100 on the "A" scale. Like Dave of Great Lakes, I ordered it with the X-Tread pattern. I'm running one inch wide belts.
Craig did most of the mechanical design and all of the welding and fabricating. We finished putting it all together Wednesday and did a test run. From the first flip of the switch it tracked perfectly and we were both amazed at the quality of the finish.
Many thanks to all that provided information for this project and special thanks to Craig for all his help.
Ted