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Mine fell off on the T-4 I got.... I superglued it back on.  So far, so good!

Velcro for me

Thanks Brett and Jan.

If I wasn't confused before, I am now looking at that diagram. 

At the end of the day, if I set the Tormek up to grind a chisel at 25 degrees, surely I should expect to then be able to continue the process of sharpening it on my honing guide at 25 degrees. The Veritas honing guide doesn't have a 27.5 degree setup on it.

I appreciate the input from both of you, but now I'm going to take some paracetamol for my headache this has given me. 

There I was, merrily grinding/sharpening my grubby old wood chisels whilst reading War and Pease (it takes ages to grind them) when at page 258 I had finished my first one!!!  It has such a shiny edge to it I can see my face. Anyway, I now have the hang of this Tormek machine thingy, so I start to do another one........Page 520 and I've finished it. Looks just like the first. I am ecstatic with pleasure, so much so that I am now hugging the Tormek. So I decide to check the angle of my lovely shiny chisels with the WM-200 angle master. There it is, 25 degrees spot on. I'm jumping for joy now, so I get the third grubby chisel and prepare that one for a new face lift. Before I do though, I thought I would just check the angles again, but this time with my Richard Kell bevel gauge......Oh no, it says somewhere between 27.5 and 28 degrees. Well I thought to myself, who the hell is Richard Kell anyway, so I checked them again with an engineer's protractor and guess what.....27.5 degrees. I then used another protractor and again 27.5 degrees. By now, my excitement has worn off a little. I will try one more time checking the angle with my Veritas honing guide. I set it up to sharpen at 25 degrees and covered up the shiny new edge with a green marker pen. Gave it a few thrusts back and forth and took a look at it. The heel of the now green face was shiny, but the rest was still green.

I suppose, (after writing all this crap above) what I am asking is, has anyone who has sharpened chisels on the Tormek had the same problem as me?
I am using the square edge jig SE-77
Black stone SB-250 and original stone SG-250
The WM-200 angle master (which is the one that tells me my chisels are 25 degrees)
And a copy of War and Peace.

Thanks.

Hello everyone,
I think I have solved the problem..........I was pressing too hard against the stone.
You were right Ken in your reply.

I have another problem though, but I'll ask that in a new post.

Hello and thanks for the reply.
I am using the DBS-22 jig.
Sharpening from the horizontal.
Black stone SB-250.
The stone is true.
HSS drill bits of various sizes.
118 point angle and 11 lip clearance angle.
I have also just noticed the drill bit holder slightly rocks when sharpening one side of the drill bit which maybe tells me the jig might not be 100% flat.

Thanks.

Hello,
I am sometimes getting a squealing and slight juddering when grinding drill bits.
I assume this is due to the drill bit rubbing instead of cutting, but not sure why this should be happening.

Thanks for any help.