In recent posts there has been much interest in the Tormek 4000 grit wheel. I would be curious to know how many of you who actually use one switch back and forth and how many use separate Tormek machines for the different wheels.
Ken
Yes me too Ken.
Good question.
Dan
Dan, maybe we hit a sensitive nerve. Come on, you guys, there is no shame is owning two (or more) Tormeks. You can share your secret with us. Neither should you be embarrassed to admit that you change wheels.
Ken,
What's the age of your machine? If you have the EzyLock shaft, changing stones takes just a few seconds. Any Tormek can be upgraded to the EzyLock shaft.
Jeff, My T7 is middle 2010, just before the change of shafts. I later bought an EZYlock. It's a nice improvement, as is the new water trough. Changing wheels is certainly easy. I'm just curious to know if most of the multi wheel users change wheels or have second machines.
Ken
I didn't answer as I already said in different posts about my machines and stones.
Two machines T7 and 2006 and 4 stones. The 2006 is the honing machine with a 4000 Tormek Japanese stone and the leather honing wheel. I consider that for me as being the perfect setting for fast sharpening and very consistent results.
Both machines have the new versions of the though and the sharpening machine has the ezylock shaft for ease of exchanging the stones. I only use one universal support.
Ionut
Thanks for the reply, Ionut. I remember you had mentioned using two machines.
Ken
I have to confess to having three, two 1200s and one 2000, all with different stones. Keep trying to get another big one on ebay so i can sell the 2 1200s and consolidate and not have the problems of different diameters, but keep losing out.....
tb,
Patience is a virtue. Hang in there. I have found ebay to be an inefficient market.
Ken
Have you tried to snipe on Ebay? Hard to lose if you know what your number is.
Steve
Nothing personal, Steve, but I hate ebay snipers!!!! I do take some pleasure when I am sniped, but the sniper pays a very high price, of at least making the so and so pay!
Call me old fashioned.....Ken
Ken, that's what I say, you have to know what you want to pay, you put that in the snipe site and that's all you pay. Lets say I see a guitar I like and it's worth $2000. I put in my max bid at say $1700 because if I can't get it for a deal, I don't want it. I don't see where anybody gets hurt, it's just that, to me, nobody wins but the seller in a public auction. Why bother?
Steve
I have sniped allot before but not by using software I did it by being there at the time of the auction so it only worked If I was at a computer.
I would wait till the last 2 seconds but for the last couple of years this doesn't work any more there seems to be a delay from the time I post to the time e-bay receives my post & had to shoot much earlier making it hard to time.
Look up "auctionsniper.com". It's free, works like a charm.
Steve
I will.
Thanks Steve.
I looked into some of these along time ago & they all were at a cost.
I like free
Dan
Free is good, and this thing really works.
I have a T-7 with the EzyLock shaft, which makes changing the wheels very fast, and just use one machine and change the wheels on it.
Joe,
My T7 was just before the EZYlock. I had no problems with the old shaft, but decided to upgrade. I really like the new EZYlock. It does make changing the wheel a snap.
I only have the one wheel at this point. I am considering adding wheels in the future. While ideally it would be nice to have separate machines for each wheel, my retirement amateur shop would be very adequately served with a single machine. Space is as much a consideration as cost.
If I did a lot more work, or did it professionally, separate machines would be the cat's meow. I think Ionut's method is really slick. (A second machine still tempts me.)
Ken (also 1950)
Ken,
If it takes five seconds to change a wheel, what's the logic of having a machine for each wheel?
Steve
Lol, i'm just usually willing to pay less than others as i don't actually need it.... though it is frustrating when the winning bid is $1 more than my max bid...The most i'll pay is what i could sell the two 1200s for
The more i use the 4000 stone though the more i like it, no longer take any of my woodwork tools to bench waterstones which are now used only for my good kitchen knives
"If it takes five seconds to change a wheel, what's the logic of having a machine for each wheel?
Steve".........Good point, Steve.
TB,thanks for your thoughts on the 4000 stone.
Ken