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Ben
I thought about doing this too, and then bought one of the threaded arms.  My concern was keeping the die true and managing to turn it with the other arm in the way.

Apart from the obvious gain of the threaded adjustment, I got two bonus's. One was that the Support was ridiculously stiff to move in the vertical bushes -Jeff suggested that if lubrication and cleaning weren't the solution, putting the two Supports into the bushes and checking for parallel might show something.  It did - a small amount of distortion of the casing was throwing them out and just a bit of persuasion got them back in alignment, and hence easy Support movement.  OK could have been done with any two suitable bars.

The other thing is that I now can permanently have a Support for back grinding and one on the front sleeves for grinding from the front.  OK again not that critical, but I reckoned the price has been justified.

Rob

Many thank for that Jeff, but, sorry, I should have said I was in the UK. That site has what I want but won't accept orders outside of the US and then refers me back to this main site, and I can't find a spare parts list here.

I'm sure there's a simple solution !!   

Rob

I bought a second hand 2000 a year or so ago and checked it out initially by sharpening up my wood working chisels and plane blades.  It is only today that I have got round to using it to tackle wood turning tools.

One of the jigs that came with the grinder was an SVS-50 (multi jig including sharpening skews) and today was the first time I went to use only to find that the screw in the jig for holding skew type gouges has its shaped end piece missing. 

Now I could quite possibly make something up, but I would really prefer to get the right item.  Is there a way of doing so please ?

Thanks
Rob Graham

I take it therefore that the '2000' is not related to the millenium !  My machine has no label and therefore predates 'late 90's'.  Anyway it works and now I'm able to set it up for my gouges, chisels, etc, which is the important thing.

Cheers
Rob

Hi Jeff
You're a better engineer than I - I am now kicking myself with failing to see such an obvious test !  One of the weaknesses of the internet is that there is an growing weakness to ask someone else rather than think something out for oneself !

The Supports when inserted the way you suggested were 1.6mm wide at the 'far' end.  On the basis that 12mm steel bar was bound to be stronger than the 2mm (?) steel of the casing, I just applied a suitable  amount of pressure in the right direction and the problem was solved.

This must be an old Supergrind 2000 as it doesn't appear to have a serial number - either that or you (companywise) have hidden it in a unobvious place.  I suspect that it was brought into the UK from the US as it is a 110v motor, so I'm running it off a 110v transformer.  Travel and age may well have contributed to the minor distortion of the casing. 

Anyway all solved now and my good value Ebay buy will now be put to use.

Very many thanks
Rob

Thanks Jeff

Been there and done that already.  In fact I have two Supports as the machine came with a plain one and I invested in a threaded one, and they are both the same.  It is an alignment problem between the bushes as each support arm goes in easily on its own, and the first inch or so of installation of the Support as a whole is OK. 

I see three options - taking the bushes off and opening them out either with a reamer on or on the metal working lathe.  Options two and three relate to some distortion in the metal casing of the machine - 2 is to file the hole in the casing to allow one of the bushes have some lateral adjustment, and 3 is to do the brute force and ignorance approach and apply a long bar through one of the bushes and heave-ho on it until the Support moves properly.

The original question does still lie open and that is just how 'loose' should the the Support bars be in the bushes ?

Rob

How stiff should this Support be in the mounting bushes ?

Mine is seriously tight and not at all easy to adjust even with the micro adjust screw. It's on 2000 Supergrind and I've tried loosening off the holding nuts and retightening them without success

Any guidance before I take the bushes off and open them out slightly on the metal working lathe

Thanks
Rob