How To Grind A Lathe Tool

When it gets hot enough to burn your fingers dunk it in the water and continue.

How to grind a lathe tool. Cool the bit before you move to the next face and be careful not to over-grind any one face. In some cases you might want to purchase a higher quality fine grit wheel. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.

Grinding Side 3 of the Tool. How to Grind Tool Bits Use a bench grinder to sharpen your tool bits. Even an inexpensive bench grinder can do a good job grinding lathe tool bits.

Once your tool is cool repeat the process with the opposite side. The more dead the nerves in your fingers are the faster this will go. The grinding rest was tipped to give the required side clearance relief and the fence adjusted to give the side cutting edge angle.

Grind each face separately. Brian Warren from Meridian Community College demonstrates how to grind properly an HSS lathe tool bitIf you own or work with a manual lathe you know that. You can grind right hand and left hand tools at the same time just by changing sides on the rest.

Lathe tool holder with high speed steel inserted cutter bit. In this example we are making a normal right handed tool for the lathe. Ad Easy to Use - Laser Fits in Spindle 4-Axis 00002 resolutn Fast Setup.

For our second project we were given two new 38 lathe bits and had to learn to grind a turning tool parting tool facing tool and a threading tool for 34-10 ANS threads. If this happens consider starting over again from the beginning. Begin by dressing the grinding wheel.