$50 bench grinder & stand
Local add for small used Delta 23-645 6" grinder with stand for $50, like new. Would give me another grinder to set up, probably with wire wheels. Inexpensive grinder when new, stand also fairly inexpensive but for $50 nice. Small, light weight, easily set outside for use. Even my big grinder, if more than brief use it gets rolled out the door, but its heavy and awkward. This little one just a lot more convenient. Home it came..
The stand has rectangular top, not square and a little large for grinder. Top is approx. 8" x 13" wide, grinder was mounted with long side at face. My first thought was to rotate grinder so pushing against long side. However means stand would protrude further into walk space. I decided to cut stand to make square 8"x8" top. More room without hitting table when grinding, just overall smaller footprint.
To make top square would be shortening 5", then shorten leg spreaders 5" to end up square. Remove top and disassembled legs. Using cut off wheel cut 5" from long side of leg spreaders matching end angle. Redrill bolt holes using cut off for template. That was easy. Top not so much
Its a folded box. looking at options seemed simplest would be to cut and refold one end. Existing slots in top sort of make that not really doable. Then realized if I cut top and notch I could slide existing folded edge inside, doubling top material, save folding.
Cut top to approx 7 3/4", matching angle at sides. The cut off side with fold will slide under and protrude about 1/4" =8".
On the cut piece off trimmed off the sides so it will slide inside top
8" x 8" top!
That was simple. Slots line up to bolt, when drilled for grinder base will add more bolting. I could weld the back edge at the top (previous picture) but legs probably will hold. I may if needed just add couple of small bolts at back edge
Used cut side to mark for new holes
Drilled top for grinder so it sets all the way to front edge. All that's left is to bolt it back together, well make shelf to set on leg spreaders.Cooling/water cup would be handy.
Since I was here and grinder off stand addressing the lamp. The flexible stalk is a bit short, very limited adjustability, puts light too close to work. Its attached at right angle so most of its length is used just to get light out in front of grinder.
Removed grinder base plate, unwired lamp. Unscrewed bulb fixture from the shade and pulled wire out of flex stalk leaving about and inch showing with 1/2" of stripped wire twisted together to screw on brass elbow
. Not as easy as it may sound, actually painful primarily due to 1/8" lamp threads are straight, 1/8" pipe threads are tapered. Threading lamp nipple into brass fitting will not go very far. Required threading nipple into ell in and out several times allowing the steel nipple to 'cut' brass threads until it was deep enough to stay tight.
A straight thread tap would be nice but dont have one. Used a steel lamp nipple with 2 nuts locked on vice, thread the ell in & out 1/8 turn at a time until I had about 3/8" insertion. Did this to both ends of ell. Then insert 1" nipple into one end that will got thru grinder.
With ell prepped and wire pulled back thread flex stalk into ell. Then its feeding wire thru the ell. More fun. Pushing wire and pulling/manipulating with small pick thru open end of nipple finally got wire thru ell. Insert lamp ell thru grinder base and locked with 2 nuts. Likely will bend a piece of flat bar with hoop in middle to ensure lamp doesn't unthread itself when using.
Or a simple EMT clamp...
Really doesn't show but gained better than 4" in lamp height and full free adjustability of the lamp. One of those sacrifice a bunch of time once to fix instead of fighting every time used.
Update Few months later.
Generally this grinder sets at recess on left. Easy to lift and set outside for use but sort of in the walkway path. Decided to utilize a better space where it could live, free up floor space.
Moved to seperate page. Change angle of legs to narrow stand 2", weld pads to end of legs to add casters and add handle
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