glambert1971@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Anyway, your homemade grinder and other gear is something like   
   > what I aspire to put together myself someday.   
      
   Cool. :)   
      
   I'd collected the parts from all over, garbage dumps some of 'em.   
   Many of those sources have dried up since "you might get hurt". :/   
      
   > Are you still dry grinding your blades? Seems counter to what   
   > Cliff preaches, but maybe that's because your grinder is turning   
   > at a much slower rpm?   
   >       --- Geoff in Oregon ---   
      
   1800rpm grinder:   
   Dip it in water often if it's tempered carbon steel.   
   Air cool it if it's HSS.   
      
   225rpm grinder:   
   I found out it works best dry. It was intended to be   
   a wet grinder but didn't work out so good. ;)   
      
   Little hand grinders:   
   Clamp the blade to a sopping wet piece of wood and grind   
   until that area gets dry, squirt water on it, go back at   
   it. ;)   
      
   Alvin in AZ   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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