Issue type: Equipment Problem Area: Metal Shop Equipment: Other Summary: Yellow Tungsten grinder broken Additional Info: The shaft rattles in the motor. If you try to run it, the grinding wheel will collide with the inside of the aluminum can, breaking the wheel.
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I’ll be in the next day or two to look at it, hopefully it’s fixable, last time we were down a tungsten sharpener I took the mid size belt sander from the metal shop and a clean belt with the tungsten in a drill, just make sure it’s a clean belt, wear a face shield, and grind it horizontally against the backplate at an angle if you point the tungsten too much towards the belt it will rip it
Definitely more rattling than usual and I can see the disc has a wobble, however, I don’t see the disc rubbing up against the inside, seems like a bearing going bad but we do have a 2 year warranty on this though so I reached out to them. Seems okay to use for the time being