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Hi,

I am incredibly lucky to have a wife who absolutely loves to clean my shop.  She spends at least an hour or two vacuuming and wiping down surfaces etc after a shop day.  However one machine she cannot get to look as good as some of the others in the shop is the T-8.  It is only a couple of years old, but it shows water stains like crazy.  I promised her I would ask other users if they have any method or special cleaner they use on their T-8's?  Any help would be very appreciated.

2nd Question:  (Can you tell I have nothing to do at work?) - If I were to buy some parts to have on hand, for example a spare easy loock nut, or maybe a a second USB just to have on hand, is there anything you would recommend folks have a 2nd of?  Any part that you should be keeping a spare of? 

Thanks Folks.  Your help is invaluable.

Joe

Hey All,

I recently bought a Edge-On-Up PT50B.  If you aren't familiar with it, it is a sharpness testing system that relatively shows you when a tool/knife is sharp.  I think I was rounding my edges, so I decided to sharpen a chisel following the Tormek method entirely.  Sharpening through all three grits of CBN wheel, and then using the settings to hone the edge on the leather wheel.  I have never had as sharp a chisel, and it registered 240 on the edge tester.  None of my other edges were below 500.  (FWIW - 240 is listed as being as sharp as a new razor blade...).  I am truly psyched.  I think you can use this system to back engineer your methods, testing throough the process to see where you may be going wrong.  I had some very good luck.  Best result I have ever had off the Tormek.  I just hope I can repeat the process.  I will let you know.

My comment about being a satisfied customer waas regarding the Tormek.  the edge tester is great, and yes I am happy I got it, but my investment in the Tormek is much greater.  I am a very happy sharpener!   More to come soon.   You may want to think about the PT50 - A,B, or C.  Nice to have.

Joe

Hi,

Being one of the luckiest men in the world - SWMBO bought me a Tormek T-8 Ultimate package plus the SJ-250 Japanese stone for Christmas in 2016.  When I received all this I decided I wanted to focus on learning the tool before I touched the SJ-250, so I put it away.  Life being what it is, I didn't look at it for a couple of years.  When I did look, I realized the vendor mistakenly shipped an SJ-200 instead of an SJ-250.  The invoice is for an SJ-250.  I imagine I am out of luck with the vendor, Highland Woodworking - but I do have an SJ-200 that I would love to use.   What is the least expensive Tormek unit that will accomodate this stone?  I am wondering if it is about the same money as buying an SJ-250.  Would be good to have a second machine with the SJ-200 loaded. 

Alternatively, is there a way to adapt the SJ-200 to fit my T-8? 

I realize there are restrictions on selling on this board - I am not doing that, just asking what Tormek machine would fit an SJ-200.  Thanks Folks.

Joe

I am a woodworker and a guitarist. One of the problems/concerns I have with sharpening is the high liklihood of cutting the tips of your fingers.  I am careful, and I try and focus on my work as much as possible.  Dealing with these tools that we want razor sharp inevitably leads to a multitude of minor cuts.  I need to minimize the amount I am cutting myself - it is interrupting my guitar playing. 

Does anyone have a method or device that avoids these little cuts and slices that we seem to get?  Tormek provides a stock of Band Aids with many of their tool packages.  I now see why.  Are there gloves that people wear?  But if you wear a glove how do you check for burrs etc?  Should I just live with it, or is there anything I can do to minimize these cuts.  I have two currently from this past weekend. 

Sorry to be such a whiner - but its a pain - especially when the string on the guitar gets caught in the slice and rips it open again.  Anything?

Thanks in advance folks.  I appreciate any suggestions.

Joe

Hey All,

First time poster, been lurking for a while.  Love me my T-8!  I am just getting diamond wheels for it - I have the DF-250 and now the DE-250.  Don't know if I will go for the "coarse" stone at this point.  It is a chunk of change and do I really need it?

So - to my question.  My water trough vibrates like crazy while I am doing anything on the T-8.  It is loud and annoying, and as I watch more and more videos featuring Tormek's, I realize how abnormal it is.  The trough vibrates a lot!  Sharpening is very meditative for me, and this vibration really disturbs the process!   I have the T-8 on the Tormeok rotating stand, and that sits on the rubber mat Tormek offers.  All of that sits on a solid steel table about knee height.  I sit while sharpening - my back isn't all that great.

So when I turn the unit on, I get the vibration almost immediately.  It occurs constantly, unless I touch the tank.  If I gently push the tank towards the wheel no more than a 16th of an inch, the vibration stops.

I would love to stop it permanently somehow.  Is it worth getting a new tank?   I know its under warranty, but the hassle of dealing with support is less than appealing.  If the tanks aren't expensive I will just buy one.  But before I do I was wondering if any of you have experienced the same problem, and if so, how you deal with it?. 

Thanks Folks - as I said in the beginning - I love this thing.  Glad to be here.  Any help is most appreciated.

Joe

Hey All,

2 years ago, my unbelievably generous wife bought me the T-8 ultimate package.  She got everything, including some stuff I will likely never use - and may want to sell.  However, that that is not the reason for my  post. 

I have been dabbling on Japanese WW tools for some time.  So two years ago I immediately ordered the Japanese stone for my T-8. However not sure of how/when to use it, I decided to learn to use the tool before trying the Japanese stone.  I put the unopened stone in a drawer.

Today - two years later, I decided to give the SJ stone a try.  Lo and behold - I ordered a JS-200, not a JS-250.  I tried mounting the JS-200 to my T-8, but it doesn't seem to work.  I tighten it well, but the stone just turns on the spindle - it is too large a bore it seems.  I am either doing something wrong, or what I somewhat suspect is that I may not be able to use an SJ-200 wheel on a T-8.  Is there a trick or do I own an 8" pink paperweight?

Thanks in advance folks.

Joe