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Thank you very much.  Less water may be the cause. I made a comparison with an old sandstone grinder, and Ken S indicates that the standard stone absorbs water.

But I use the diamond stone and it doesn't absorb water.
So don't add more water than the stone is just wet and lower the water basin as cbwx34 writes.Then the distance between the water basin and the stone disc becomes a little more than 3mm.

Thank you very much. As soon as I have a result, I'll report it.

I'm new to this forum and hope to learn a lot and maybe answer questions in due course.
I come from the Netherlands and hope the translation goes well.

50 years ago, as an carpenter in education, I learned to grind on a large sandstone rotating in water. Slow, slow, but sharp. And that, honing the chisel with a famous Belgian honingstone.

Since a week I now have a Tormek T8 with a lot of accessories. I could take it over and the T8 was less than a year old.

This week I performed the first grinding operations.  The results are encouraging, but not yet optimal.
It also reminds me a bit of 50 years ago......

My first question is of a more general.
I find the water tank spills quite a lot of water. Especially because the side almost touches the stone. There is only 3mm space between it and the water sometimes flows over it. (See drawing)

Am I doing something wrong?