Friday, August 7, 2015

Shereline Lathe - Dremel Grinder, Dressing Attachment

One of my most viewed posts of all time is the Dremel grinder attachment post.
As of today I completed another piece of the puzzle; a dressing attachment.
I had been trying to figure it out for a while and when the Dremel drill chuck project came along I decided to get to it.

Since the Dremel moves with the cross slide the dresser had to be fixed to the bed somehow.

This design is fast and easy to set-up and take-down.

One element with my angled Dremel motor attachment is getting the grinding wheel aligned with the spindle axis, once this is done the dresser can do it's job. Although the wheel is spinning up against the diamond dresser the passes that are very light 0.001 or less per pass.


This thing is surprisingly easy to make now that I have figured it out for you.
I was not sure that the finished product (shaft grinding) could tell the difference but the Drill chuck project Proved that the finish after dressing is substantially smoother.



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