On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:08:20 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:

I rebuilt an old surface grinder once, and now I'm rebuilding a 16" chop saw.
Both emitted copious streams of grinding swarf, both machines had lots of
aluminum castings. I remember struggling mightily to get the surface grinder
clean, but this chop saw is much worse. I am sure it's the nature of the sparks,
they must be much larger, hotter and "stickier" coming off that 16" wheel at
3450 rpm. At any rate, they're built up in lots of places and I am wondering if
there's any sort of magical trick to getting off built-up grinding grit off of
aluminum castings.

GWE

Steel shot in the blast cabinet. Use with extra care.

Or simply knock off whats in the way with a hammer and chisel..and use
the damned thing.

Or are you pin striping it too?

G

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner