On 2015-08-31, Gerry wrote:

Are all small bench grinder wheels crap nowadays? Bought two new
wheels for my old 6" B&D bench grinder from the local hardware store.
When mounted, both wheels are nearly 1/16" out of true both side to side
and OD. Figured maybe the flanges were bad so I turned some new one from
round stock to match the ID of the wheels. Mounted them and they were
still horribly out. My flanges are jam on, it's the center holes in the
wheels that are so bad. Bought a new grinder from HF, yea, I know, cheap
China crap, and it is just as bad right out of the box.I just want a
general purpose grinder/wire wheel set up that will run decently true
without shaking the whole bench, not a tool grinder. Problems seem to be
the wheels, not the grinders themselves.Suggestions?

Well ... I've not bought 6" wheels recently, but I did buy some
8" wheels from MSC not too many years ago, and they ran very smoothly.

The grinder is a Jet FWIW --bought from a local builder's supply
place which had had it in the window so long that the box was badly
faded on the sides towards the window. :-) (I got it for a good price --
I think that they had figured that nobody was going to buy it. Anyway,
the bearings on it were very smooth, too. Turn it off and it runs for a
couple of minutes or more before the centrifugal switch clicks on
slow-down. :-)

Note that I was after good white wheels, not the average gray
wheels, and so I paid a bit more -- which may have made the difference.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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