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For me personally I like having a good grip on the tungsten during sharpening and a bench grinder feels quite controlled. Whilst I have 100s of hours experience using an angle grinder, for me personally I wouldn't want to sharpen a tungsten on one. If it caught or slipped you have a very sharp...

angle grinder is fine, flap disk good but it’s hard on them or grinding disk ok, diamond disk best but don’t see them to often. Nothing wrong with bench grinder, I’m fairly sure the idea behind pro tungsten sharpeners was to catch the harmful dust. It’s a bit like these fellas buying chainsaws...

There is one here that looks like it is mounted on a die grinder motor: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004254328590.html At a guess, the motor is a Fakita, as they are the most copied. But that still makes it tricky to find as there are no pictures or sizes given in the listing. This is...

You can also grind them well at a high rottion speed in a battry drill by angling the tungsten up the top 1/3 of the grinding wheel as it rotates towards you . Use the same wheel you'd sharpen lathe cutting tools with , not a real hard and coarse wheel After seeing what my profession TIG...

Main problem I found was the switches going intermittent. Genuine and clones seem to have the same weakness, but if it is Tungsten dust then how about a printed shroud?

I’ve been using my bench grinder but without the drill I can get decent points but you always get warm fingers and with the sharpener they were always the exact same every time

As a temp fix till you get sorted i used to get good results by putting the tungsten in a drill and coming in on the side of the bench grinding wheel, can achieve very accurate points to the tungsten tips with practice ;)

Sorry for the thread resurrection, but it was the first that came up on a search. I needed to remove some hot dip galv from scaffold tube that I wanted to tig weld. Anytime I have tried removing galv by grinding, the tungsten immediately gets a blob of zinc, so this time I ground the galv...

Thanks for all the quick replies That suffers from the same problem as the silver steel I mentioned in the post: it suffers from heating up too much so I'd have to be much more careful regrinding it (and using it when turning bits of wood at high speed). Isn't that just the American name for...

I would be tempted to put a small point on the tungsten, to help throw the HF out from the point, As for low amps tig also having this issue, are you sharpening with the grinding wheel grinding towards the point rather than across, the grain heading down the point also helps throw the HF from...

Oh no, this has happened sooner than I thought it would... I've got old grinding wheels on my grinder, very old really... should I buy a fresh wheel just for grinding the tungsten and if so anything in particular? Questions and I've not even got a plug on it yet

The rent is just the start of it, the brushes are expensive and don't last long. You can resharpen the bristles but it all takes time and the bristles get loose and fall out eventually. They are a great tool but I only use mine when I can't blast or it's a small part connected to a bigger part...

Let's face it, cutting, grinding, welding etc all create huge amounts of dust. Beyond belief, and even with a lot of masks, it ends up inside us on a pretty large scale. It's amazing we don't come to more harm

I jumped out of a pefectly good plane wearing a parachute packed by my 11 year old son, so sure Ill survive grinding a tungsten free hand On a smooth green wheel. Find the dremel thing a bit of a pain to be honest.

Anyone know? Got some slightly worn carbide stump grinder teeth, I reckon there's a sharpen in them without interfering with the brazing. I don't have a green wheel (I could get one) but some sources say CBN is suitable for grinding tungsten. Could imagine it would give a much sharper edge than...

After grinding, some traces of the abrasive wheel are visible on the die. Hole ring - soldered tungsten carbide plates. I believe that the surface can be leveled with diamond paste to the level of a mirror. Manual lapping. Q: With which face should I choose cast iron lapping plate? With a...

I think coarseness is what matters - a fine wheel makes fine scratches and closer to smooth the tungsten is, the better. The tungsten is also hard so I find that a fine diamond wheel is "just right". I think I'd believe what you read. If you are using a blunt 1/4" tungsten and 800 amps you are...

Thats what I have been doing with my 8" bench grinder. I thought about getting a diamond wheel but dont really want to give up my normal wheel and 8" ones are pricy. If i had space I'd get a smaller bench grider. Only got a tiny workshop and limited bench space.

Unless you are doing high quality, critical tig welding you don't need a dremel jig or similar. All you need is a bench grinder & a cordless drill. I was taught this way many years ago & always use it. Clamp your tungsten in a cordless drill, turn the grinder on, spin the drill & hold the...

Hi, looking at these Dremel attachments for grinding. Few YouTube videos praise them and a few trash them. Anyone here using one? The 3mirrors one on amazon says 15 and 20 degrees but says something about 30 and 40 degrees tip but in broken English so not really sure what its on about. does it...