06-10-2017, 09:49 PM
Thanks for explaining the glass platen Mark.
I feel like the slick glass allows the belt to have less resistance and return less heat. I honestly don't know much about them other than the one for my 1"x42" is super thin and a big advantage as you said is not wearing a spot into the metal platen.
It took me a long time wondering what I was doing wrong watching a nice bur develope to spend an incredible amount of time polishing a bevel before I realized I had worn out a popular spot on the platen. The thicker cloth belts weren't as noticeable as the belts that were thinner.
When I mounted it I welded a piece of scrap iron to the back that supported the bottom of the new glass platen. I also drilled small holes on the metal platen and scuffed the back side of the glass for the epoxy to have more pockets to do what it do.
I can't remember where I got it the first one, (it was a knife making suplier) but it is a different glass than the Pyroceramgot that you mentioned.
I did buy some Pyroceram locally a while back that is much thicker and plan to use it on a complete new machine I've been working on for quite a while and hope to have ready to use and share details by the end of summer.
My intensions for building a new machine is to make sharpening less stressful and faster for myself and everyone else interested in using a small belt grinder for sharpening
Much of what I plan to use are pirated technologies and mechanical bits from tools that have obvious patens that I would like to avoid and stay out of trouble.
I feel like the slick glass allows the belt to have less resistance and return less heat. I honestly don't know much about them other than the one for my 1"x42" is super thin and a big advantage as you said is not wearing a spot into the metal platen.
It took me a long time wondering what I was doing wrong watching a nice bur develope to spend an incredible amount of time polishing a bevel before I realized I had worn out a popular spot on the platen. The thicker cloth belts weren't as noticeable as the belts that were thinner.
When I mounted it I welded a piece of scrap iron to the back that supported the bottom of the new glass platen. I also drilled small holes on the metal platen and scuffed the back side of the glass for the epoxy to have more pockets to do what it do.
I can't remember where I got it the first one, (it was a knife making suplier) but it is a different glass than the Pyroceramgot that you mentioned.
I did buy some Pyroceram locally a while back that is much thicker and plan to use it on a complete new machine I've been working on for quite a while and hope to have ready to use and share details by the end of summer.
My intensions for building a new machine is to make sharpening less stressful and faster for myself and everyone else interested in using a small belt grinder for sharpening
Much of what I plan to use are pirated technologies and mechanical bits from tools that have obvious patens that I would like to avoid and stay out of trouble.