Quote from: tgbto on September 15, 2025, 05:16:36 PMQuote from: DonS on September 14, 2025, 03:37:08 PMHow large is the delta between the T8 shaft OD and the wheel hole ID? Is it large enough (>0.4mm) so that one could simply 3D print a sleeve (e.g., using a 0.2mm nozzle) to slide over the shaft whenever mounting a wheel, or perhaps turn a thin sleeve on a lathe?
I would be wary of anything that might increase strain on the stone, as it seems to be rather fragile. I wouldn't want to initiate a crack in the stone when the stones expands ever so slightly because it is wet.
As to the wobble in the stone, tightening the nut when the label is upright has become second nature. I don't even think about it anymore, it really is not that much of a loss of time.
The SJ wheel is tougher than one might think, given how friable/soft it seems to be. By no means should it be handled roughly and without care, but they can survive even severe cracking and still be usable.
In 2018, my SJ wheel fell off of a folding table that did. And in the process got soaked with acetone. It was cracked in several places well beyond anything I could image it would survive. It did:
Farmers Markets Ends in Disaster - or - Don't Drop your SJ Stone
The cracks closed as the acetone evaporated and I was able to true it and use it as though nothing ever happened. There are videos in this post of the stone being trued and a slow rotation view of the surface after initial truing.
Truing Damaged SJ Stone (the one we thought was beyond hope)
Even so, I would not do anything that might induce cracks unnecessarily, which I consider attempting to install a bushing to be.
Further, I think that using the label alignment trick, with truing and use in that orientation should take care of any bobbing up and down of the outer surface. I also think that lateral wobble is immaterial to the sharpening function/action, considering that the effective "wobble", that is side to side movement of blades across the surface, are far more extreme than any little bit of lateral movement in the wheel.
In short, I think attempting to stall a bushing is a solution for a problem that does not exist.
Rick