On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 11:45:49 PM UTC-4, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 7:10:01 PM UTC-4, Bill Leonhardt wrote:
On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 11:35:45 AM UTC-4, Bill Leonhardt wrote:
One of the most valuable tools in my shop, is an arbor with a wire wheel on one side and a coarse grind stone on the other. (sorry, but I am trying to explain this without pictures).

Currently, the arbor is mounted at the end of an old workbench and is driven by an even older refrigerator motor. Extremely handy for cleaning off rust, screw threads, etc.

To save room, I need to get rid of this old workbench and remount the arbor/motor on a "stand alone" stand, as small as reasonable. This seems straight forward, but, I suspect there are many clever approaches to doing this.

I am asking the group if they could please point me to pictures/images of motor/arbor setups like this that I can use for inspiration.

Thanks, Bill

PS, I actually have two arbors and would consider a set up where each could run with their own motor or share a single motor.

DerbyDad03,

Sorry for my confusing response. I'm never sure whether to top post or bottom post. I know it was important to some in this group, but whenever I think I have it straight, I go through several senior moments and forget.

Yes the single grinder motor with grind wheel and wire wheel makes sense. It is a lot more portable and space efficient. For me though, I have two of these arbors and several motors I have collected over the years. I am old enough now to either use these motors or throw them out since I have more projects and ideas than time left in my life (or at least I think that's true).

Since I have two arbors, I thought I'd rig one up with one or two buffing wheels. I've never had that before and it could be handy.

Regarding my use of the wire wheel, over the many, many years I have had a shop, the wire wheel has brought life back to many rusted objects. Having it on the arbor (I believe) allows me to get the wire wheel into more corners, etc.that I could with the close-in mounting on the grinder motor.

Still, my fantasy is that the "perfect" set-up (as I imagine it) exists with someone in the REC and he or she will say: "Oh yeah, I mounted one years ago. Here's a pic."

All the suggestions people have posted are good (and appreciated). I think I probably didn't explain exactly what I was after.

My current thinking is to have the arbor out on a horizontal 2 x 4, with the motor hung far beneath. That way I could get the wire wheel into nooks and crannies of good size objects (maximum access).

It occurs to me that readers may not know what I mean by an arbor. I found one on Google Images:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...or-belt-driven

Thanks every one for your interest and patience with my posting.

Bill

Bill,

Thank you for all that information. I understand that a "standalone" wire
wheel allows for more access. I've run into the very problem you describe
with my bench grinder set-up. Yours is definitely better in that regard.

As far as your posting style, it's not really about the top-posting vs.
bottom-posting, although most here use bottom. The real issue is that I
(we?) are not seeing the post that you are responding to. Every one of your
posts (at least for me) looks like a response to your original May 3rd
post. That is the only text that gets quoted in your responses.

For example, when you responded to my "Have you considered this set-up?"
post, none of the text from *my* post (my question and the link) was
included in the response, so there was no reference for "I haven't
considered it before but I will now". Anyone coming along later would have
trouble figuring out what "it" is. I don't know what method you use to
access this group or what you do to respond, but as I said, all of your
responses look as if you are responding to your own original post.

DerbyDad03

I see the problem. Of course what you say makes sense to me. My replies to other posts make no sense if the quoted text isn't there. I use GoogleGroups in Chrome and I was mistakenly responding by clicking the BIG RED "Post Reply" button on the top of the screen instead of using the little black arrow all the way over on the right.

I'm sorry for all the confusion. I get a lot of great info from this group..

Hopefully this response has your text quoted. Thanks for taking the time to carefully and respectfully set me straight. I genuinely appreciate it.

Bill