Show us your grinder.

Untitled by AR Custom Knives (Andrew Riley), on Flickr
Untitled by AR Custom Knives (Andrew Riley), on Flickr
Untitled by AR Custom Knives (Andrew Riley), on Flickr
Untitled by AR Custom Knives (Andrew Riley), on Flickr
Untitled by AR Custom Knives (Andrew Riley), on Flickr

Over-center Cam Tensioner with 100 lb gas strut. Everything is completely tool-less for platen and tool arm changes. 4 possible tool arm positions, tilts 90. I've since modified the tracking wheel to adjust on 2 axes (similiar to the Reeder Inc grinder) and made a couple more rests and platens for it. Lastly, the tracking wheel and tensioner can be moved to either side based on user preference. Pretty happy with how it came out.
 
My new grinder- hot off the press! Just got this in the mail yesterday. Took a few hours ( with some mods to my bench and VFD holder) to get up and running. My first impressions on this grinder are great. Solid, stable, quiet, and more power than the 1x30!
This is a Kadrmas Kreation SRG 1.5- 6 in drive wheel, 5 in tracking wheel. I pired it with 1800 rpm 1 HP and VFD.
Will share more soon - and looking forward to getting to grinding some blades.---- Nick
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Well, I've always been fairly happy with my grinder that I built with direct drive and VFD. Here's a photo with a nickel (see black circle) balanced at 4,000 sfpm shown on VFD display.
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This is my home built. I designed it entirely. Didn’t use any existing designs to go by. Built from 1018 cold roll and 2024/7075 billet. Used the cast iron housing from my old HF 4x36 belt sander as a base. Powered by a 1.5hp, 3ph Dayton motor. Not really much I “don’t” like about it. It runs smooth as silk and is a pleasure to use. I am currently building a smaller flat platen for an 8” Granite platen surface as the 12” I designed in really is overkill & I just haven’t needed it. I’m also adding a second tooling arm port and making a fully adjustable work surface.
 

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One Armed said:
This is my home built. I designed it entirely. Didn’t use any existing designs to go by. Built from 1018 cold roll and 2024/7075 billet. Used the cast iron housing from my old HF 4x36 belt sander as a base. Powered by a 1.5hp, 3ph Dayton motor. Not really much I “don’t” like about it. It runs smooth as silk and is a pleasure to use. I am currently building a smaller flat platen for an 8” Granite platen surface as the 12” I designed in really is overkill & I just haven’t needed it. I’m also adding a second tooling arm port and making a fully adjustable work surface.
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That's a cool setup One Armed. Very nice.
 
I appreciate this thread very, very much!
Edit: This is helping me think through what I'm going to do for one. Lots of crime in my area.
 
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