Grinding Wheels

[Ed_K]

 I have a Dinasaw bandgrinder,where do you get your wheels from? I tried Bailey's and I have an em to dinasaw. I tried the local hardware store and got wheels made for grinding alumanim (spelling is getting worse) needless to say they didn't work.
Help  :-[

[bseago]

 :)I buy my grinding wheels at Cooks saw 1 800 473 4804  there are two grades of blue grinding wheels I use the premium they are 16.50

[Fred]

Baileys dont have them?? 
                            Fred

[duffdav]

I have the Cook's Cat Claw and couldn't find any 3/8 thick wheels locally either and had to resort to mailorder but my biggest problem was trying to keep the stone dressed to keep the proper hook angle on the face of the tooth.  It seems a disproportionate amount. wore from the square corner of the wheel resulting in a progressive loss of hook angle to the point of a back slope if I didn't keep grinding the wheel away to get back to a nearly square edge. Eatin' me up in stone costs as I have a Norwood and a Hudson that run every day resawing waste products from a local company into products for the mining industry.

I made a bushing out of a washer and have been using 7/8 x 4 1/2 x 1/8 thick grinding disks for a Black & Decker right angle grinder. No more problems with a deteriorating hook angle....and disks are 3 for 3.99

Do to the thinner wheel not in time with the cam timed for a 3/8 stone I had to sharpen in two passes...one for the face and one for the gullet and backslope. Cooks made me a special cam timed for the 1/8 thickness. Works great now.

Even with a $2000 sharpener sitting there,  for a quick light sharpening I still use a sharpener made from a bench grinder just about everyday. Cheap, easy to make and works fine if you have your angles and stone right. I have used the same stone on it nearly five years. Highly recommended to any occasional sawyers who need to sharpen for themselves.

[Tom]

When experimenting with grinding wheels, it would pay to consider the RPM's that they can withstand.  WoodMizer recommended for us not to use the fiber glass backed grinding wheels and some of the other composite wheels.  One of the reasons was that the woodmizer sharpener turns up more RPM's than a lot of the stones will withstand.  It can get ugly when a grinding stone or wheel comes apart.

[isawlogs]

 western woodlot equipment ltd     1 800.267.7297 or 1 250.377.4211

  DG0121 G.Stone 125X5MMX7/16"    15,95$ Cdn

  I just ordered one one week ago .  ;)

[Fred]

What about the dinasaw cyclone wheel that never needs shaping? they say they can make them any size.
                        Fred

[Corley5]

You might try here http://www.foley-belsaw.com/

[Ed_K]

 Thanks all, I'll try the 800 #s. I tried the angle grinder wheel but couldn't get it to balance good enough to be safe.

[fstedy]

I looked for my Dinasaw grinder also not available from normal machine shop type supply companies. Ended up ordering them from Baileys.