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I agree. I guess it will be difficult to get lower BESS on this set (SG+honing weel)
I tried to play with the honing angles (probably on hands, not at fixed angle), but be honest, I didn't see a difference.

I am wondering why you doesn´t reach with your set bess measurement results between 60 and 90 Bess.
How long is your grinded knife sharp. A day, a week or more?
An eyeopener for me was an USB microscope. That showes me the fact, that I didn´t reach the edge with honing.
The black line from the marker I was not able to see with my loupe glasses, but the enlargement from the microscope showed me how much wasn´t touched by the honing wheel.
Reaching the edge correctly with the honing wheel will show you little spirales (or helices?) while the burr is going.
After honing with the Tormek I use an oiled leather belt. The "Ballistol H1" oil doesn´t smell and is certificated for Kitchen use.

Do these machines tend to leak?

The T8 doesn´t leak. The water comes from the wet grinding disc safter removal and knives, you are sharpening. Short knives are putting water on the top of the machine. For this there are special drip trays, made by 3D printer. They are useful for saving the expensive cooling water with Tormek ACC.
Long knives around 25cm are putting water all over the place.

I have the T8 in a low plastik box. For the leaking water there is a paper towel on the bottom f the box.
In my opinion, the waterleaking is a problem for safety in the shop. Water on the floor may let you fall down.

The plastik box is also very helpful for holding back the dirt from the leatherwheel. The flakes of honing compound makes cleaning a hard job. A second papertowel on the left of the machine makes cleaning very easy.

I have a second box of wood for keeping my grinding dics. The construction plan for this is avalible here in the forum.

Am I the first one in the history of the world to discover this?

Sorry to burst your bubble but not really. I could not find any reference to deburring knives with ultra sonics so this may be new, but there are people deburring parts post machining using ultrasonics so the technique is not new. From what I can find it is extremely effective and your results are consistent which what I see on machined part deburring.

Working with ultrasonic plus plates or needles may scratch the blade and eventually round the spine.
There are diffenent liquids. Ask a dental technican or an optician for liquids working well with carbon knifes.

That part number doesn't come up on an internet search and not on the Tormek web site.  check that you have the letters and numbers correct.  Perhaps you can post a photo of it. 

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Lightroom-Galerie (http://www.cattleya.ch/bau/tormek/)

HEy
does someone know the Tormek ES-250 Grinding Disk?
For what is this to use?

Thanks

Hi. In any case, if you take the arcsine of (J6/2)/I6, you already have the angle in dps (degrees per side), which is what TormekCalc uses, or half the total edge angle. So why would you again divide the result by 2 ?

I divided with 2 because in my TormekCalc V2.70 the raw is named cutting angle and not grinding angle.

  (What is "brideness"?)  The sharpening angle is not based on this.

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ARCSIN. An angle function of Excel.

Hello!

I use a laser goinometer but there is at no time the angle, I tried to gring.
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It would be hard to say without knowing more... but I wonder if the issue lies elsewhere, and your fix was just a coincidence.  For example, aren't most goniometers only accurate within a couple of degrees?
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You are right.I dont know the tolerances of the goinometer.
Can this be the solution?

I was thinking in the way, you are thinking.
I use a laser goinometer but there is at no time the angle, I tried to gring.

Hello!
I had the problem, that adjusting the T8 to 15°, the knifes angle was different. Thats because the thick of the blade and the brideness of the blade make a dissmis of round about 1,4°.
So I made a formula for the TormekCalc Excel sheet in this way:

=WENNFEHLER((Z6-(ARCSIN(((J6/2)/I6)))*180/PI())/2;"")

Z6 is the angle I like to grind.
J6 is the thicknes of the blades back.
I6 is the brideness of the blade.

I have a machete with 16.5" of sharpened blade and the extended USB is long enough to accommodate it.  But, as you mentioned, there is the issue of the big belly towards the tip.  If I was going to sharpen the machete on my Tormek I would do the long, straight section and then reclamp and sharpen the belly separately -- almost like sharpening a huge tanto blade.

Hey there!
There is a toolbar with 65cm lengh availeble at https://schleifjunkies.de. There is also a doublejig. International shipping is possible. I have this long toolbar. It works fine. But using the full lengh needs attention to the Tormek jig. The black screwhead hits the two vertikal bars.

Pietje

Hello!
Solinger dünnschliff is very exciting.
I have it on an Wüsthoff Chefknife 205 and on a Wüsthoff Nakiri 165.

The german Godfather of grinding is

Jürgen Schanz
Schneidwerkzeugmechanikermeister
Karlsfeldstrasse 13
D-76297 Stutensee
Tel: +49-(0)7249-95 25 09
Fax: +49-(0)7249-43 79
https://www.schanz-messer.de/kunsthandwerk/kontakt/

The Homepage is also in English.

The dünnschliff is about 25 € for each of my knives.

Hi Ken!
With the KJ-jigs it is possible to test it on knives.
My Zwilling Cleaver works very well with vegetables after putting on a 12° convex edge.
My Tojiro Santoku didn´t benefit of the convex. I had to grind the standart edge for 12°.

Pietje

Hi Ken!
The industrial rule of construction is:
A hole can only be greater and a shaft can only be smaller. Thats ISO.

Pietje

Hi highpower!
It is the link user cbwx34 has posted.
For the offered solution in this video I have a different point of view.
You may loose your 8-year garantee grinding the shaft.
If you have only one Tormek T8 my way is to hone up the hole of the disc.
with a reamer and special honing oil or with a adjustable handreamer you will get an proper hole with a diameter you need.

Pietje