On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:35:21 -0500, Brent Philion
wrote:

I perconally take a tiny lightweight 4.8v drill i have

Lightly toss the tunsgten in the keyless chuck and use the drill to spin
it on the bench grinder

I also bought a pack of 10 tungstens and sharpened them all, So i vanish
for 10 minutees get a coffee and sharpen tungsten then back to welding
till i mess the 10 up again

And of Course I use 2% thoriated so you can insert the radiation jokes here

Brent,

Just trying to help here... but hopefully you are still holding the
tungsten so that the grind marks are parallel to the tungsten it's
self?

If your grind marks are going around the tungsten as opposed to inline
with it you will have a variety of problems.

John P.