How to: Build a 2x72 Belt Grinder - A Complete Walk Through
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This is a narrated video walk through of the Revolution 2x72 tilting Belt Grinder. Hope everyone is doing okay. Take some time in your shops and build something. This is a perfect time to do that. Enjoy my friends.
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@Marvin Nova thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm trying it out atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
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@Leonard Kian Glad I could help :D
Brian, if your channel doesn’t explode, I’d be amazed. Really enjoyed this. One day I’ll be able to justify it. Thank you and stay safe 🇬🇧🙏🇺🇸
Awe man! Great compliment! I really enjoy this work. It gives me purpose. Every day. Comments like this make it all worth it! 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
@@HouseMadeUS You're welcome, Brian. 🇬🇧👍🇺🇸
Hi Brian I saw visited a mate talking about grinding and cutting disks . Loved the way you put your stickers on his tools . A very informative post
Hi Brian. I live in New Zealand and have been making a few knives but was never happy with the finish I ended up with when using an angle grinder and sanding discs. Thanks so much for designing this machine and posting such an amazingly detailed video about it. I've been building my own version of your belt grinder and it's looking great! Nearly finished. I just need to build the tracking wheel tilt bracket and I'll be done. I was just trying to figure out an easy way to fabricate that then came across your tracking wheel bracket video! Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing. You made it possible for me to build a machine that I otherwise would have thought was a bit too complicated to make without big expensive equipment. Kind regards. Leon
Thank you Leon. Glad it worked out for you. Cheers! 🙏🏼
The patience and detailing is mind blowing, awesome build
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Thank you Kiiru!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I like the versatile design.
Parabéns pelo trabalho, muito bem feito!!
Thank you for what you do for the home metal workers! You have e helped finalize my designs on a ton of things! Thanks!
Thank you Kris. What projects are you working on?
@@HouseMadeUS I just got done restoring my lathe, and now want to upgrade my belt grinder. I chose your 2x72 design because of your attention to detail. I'm a home machinist that also like to help other home metal workers. Pay it forward. Thanks for your videos and knowledge.
Brian, I just heard you on the EC podcast with Nate and Scott. I can tell why your narration does so well. 1. Your stream-of-thought speaking is just monotone enough that you have a great narrator's voice 2. Sense of humor 3. Humility 4. Loads of talent, hard work, and thought. Well done man! Well done!
Alan!! Thank you my friend. I really appreciate the positive feedback. Glad you connected with my work through Nate & Scott. Great folks all around. Thanks again.
Great work, so profesional... Saludos from Colombia
Awesome, easily among the top 3 DIY belt grinders on youtube.
Thank you sir!! :)
Complimenti veramente bravo!!!
Heck yeah man. I appreciate the attention to detail. Lots of work went into making this design just right! Lots of milling there too. I like that rotary milling on the slots. That whole saw is massive!
Red Beard Ops yeah man! This is a fun one to build. A CNC plasma would take about 1/2 the amount of time. Lol. I have one coming. Thanks for watching J. You gonna make plans for the surface grinder or did you follow someone else’s? I’d like to see if I could do it.
@@HouseMadeUS So I put all the measurements in the video and I have some drawings in the description. The original concept came from some guys on bladeforums.com. I put the link to the thread there too. They have pages and pages of people building a design similar to the one I did. No plans to make any plans though. Some of the components could be made instead of bought (like the screw table and maybe the bearing slider). If you manage to figure out an economical way to make both of those... You could put together some pretty sweet DIY plans like your grinder!
@@HouseMadeUS THis one is the best I've seen - kzhead.info/sun/mr6Eh5GmnGWpe6M/bejne.html
I like how you use the all thread to setup spacing. Very nice.
Thank you! 😊
I love my revolution grinder so far. Its sturdy in any position
Are you grinding with it? If so send me a vid or pics via email. LOVE YOUR STYLE!!
@@HouseMadeUS i wish. I am still waiting on drive wheel its very late
Love this design. I'm placing an order this week.
Shipped it this morning! Headed your way Dan. Thank you!!
Love the attention to detail! One thought about clamping the hinges together to get an identical grind: drill pilot holes in all, tap the last one, bolt them together and shape. Just a thought... killer build!
That’s not a bad idea!! Thanks for watching and commenting. This is a fun one.
Genius build i ever seen.
Thank you sir!! 🙌🏻
Nice build with a lot of work. Good job!
Thank you!! 😁👊🏻
Master, thanks.
The best build I've seen. Hoping I can build one.
Thanks man!! 😁👊🏻
Awesome video , you sir have ripped it again ! The grinder design is a work of art! Keep ripping it sir!
Thank you Bill!! You grinding yet??? 😆
@@HouseMadeUS yes Sir and loving it , going to wire in a light to the machine today.
Can't wait to see your ideas for a magnetic surface grinder attachment and what are your thoughts about a rotary platen? Love the builds.
Hi Ken, yes J over at Red Beard OPS made an awesome surface grinder, i will most likely follow his direction on that. And as far as the rotary platen I am waiting on the CNC plasma to come in. (HOPE ITS SOON) So we can make some cool stuff including a rotary platen. :)
@@HouseMadeUS Cool can't wait, that will be another great build, i am positive!!! When i get to mine i would like to do it where the mag turns on and off.
Nice work. Great job.
⚡️⚡️⚡️Thank you! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Excellent experience well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
:Awesome machine man. Pretty simple yet very robust. I really look up to folks who take the time to video what they are doing in their endeavor to help other people figure something out. I'll be workin on something and be like, "i have no idea what im doing, i know, Ill look it up on youtube"!!!! Lol. Good stuff man
Thank you for saying so. I really needed to hear this today. Good timing. Thanks again.
Great job on the build. The only constructive criticism I have to give you as someone who also owns my own cnc mill, lathe, and plethora of fab tools please use sacrificial material under your parts on the mill and rotary table when you have to clamp larger pieces with through cuts. If you take any kind of heavy cuts you may have your mill bit pulling into the material with every rotation of the bit and you end up with a ramping slot in your table. I have seen so many machines with scars on the tables from this. Other than that top notch build.
I definitely have a few scars, both on me and my mill table! Live and learn
Great looking grinder 🤙🏻
Thank you sir!! :) I love your work btw. Great blades. I saw your grinder is broken, are you building/fixing a new one?
House / Work thank you very much ! I really appreciate that . As of right now she’s pooched but I have fixed it enough to get by for the time being
Nice work! What was the wobbly tool used to drive the tap near the end of the video?
Subbed. I'm so glad I found your channel! Design for the hands & soul and steel eye candy. :)
Thank you Brother!! Yes!!
To hold the hinges together when gringing the profiles, masking tape and super glue works super well!
I’ll give that a shot some time. Thanks! 💪🏻
How to make 2x72 belt grinder, first cut your materials and use your 2x72 grinder to...... 🧐 love it
Nice job it is a lot better looking than mine but I built mine at work when we were slow so I had to hurry things up to keep the piece but all my material was machined after welding to assure a perfect 90 degree fit it works perfect but I want to change the motor out for the 2hp 3phase set up with a vfd the absolute best setup I just used what I had and at the time didn't know better but its 20 years old and still work great but has ate a few motors you really need that variable speed when making blades also a foot pedal to start the motor when you have the blade on the belt for the fine grind great build I will change mine over soon thanks for the info new subscriber
For the hinges @ 5:30, Drill the pilot hole first, then thread it and use that to keep them aligned. I'd just tack weld them in a few spots here and there then clean those up last after everything else is drilled and cut.
I will have to look into that. Could work. Thanks for the input my man. 👊
I like to use template tape instead of magnets or clamps. You'd be amazed how well it sticks to metal considering its designed for wood. And the belt sander will just remove the overhang.
Good tip
Hi Brian, I'm thinking about trying this. The motor i have doesn't mount like yours. Is it possible to use a motor that mounts underneath as opposed to the output shaft end?
Класс! Спасибо.
Excellent experience 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 will ✅
Thank you!! 😁👊🏻
Very very good❤❤❤
Thank you sir!!
I use the painters tape and super glue method when sanding multiple identical parts at once
Ill have to give that shot, multiple people have told me about this. Thank you.
Very Nice info.
Glad it was helpful!
Your drillbits look nice, which drillbits are you using can you tell me please...""
great video great build
Thank you Lawrence!!
Hi Excellent work, I wonder where you bought your ceramic cut off wheel! Thanks
I buy them from Klingspor. Great folks over there. Thank you! 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
I would have drilled / tapped the hinges and bolted them together to get a uniform grind ( if I didn't have a milling machine/ turn table access )
Magnifique bakstande
Oui!! Merci beaucoup.
Cuanto mide la banda de lijar , aquí en argentina 🇦🇷 tenemos dos medidas 70 mm ancho x 2000 mm y otra de 50x 2000. Mi consulta es si el plano que vendes me sirve para estas medidas?
when you use such a large diameter drill you do it in low speed with a lot of cutting oil and it doesn't scrim or make a annoying sound or vibrations.
Thats a good point. I learned a lot building this. :)
@@HouseMadeUS Brian you are a inspiring man and i love the work you do and that you let us the viewers participate in the process.
Love the build, a route I will most likely take. Just a question on you motor? What was the max RPM on it? And why did you need to use the 7 inch drive wheel? Cheers
Hi Toby, max RPM is somewhere in the 7000 range right now and no you don't need a 7" wheel, It can be as small as a 4" wheel.
@@HouseMadeUS right that makes sense with a 1750 rpm motor. I was looking to use a 4 inch drive wheel. Thanks and stay safe out there
@ 7:48, put an aluminum or brass spacer under the plate so that just before you break through and ruin your rotary table, you see different colored chips.
Great tutorial. Unfortunately I don't have much of the tooling you used in the build. So, I'll just have to figure a work around like angle brackets and bolts where I don't have a welder [well, I have a cheap 110 wire feed, but not the electric service to allow the use of it where I live, it always trips the breakers] and such... (and don't know another welder). I'll figure it out, I could really use this sort of grinder around the shop. Heck, maybe I'll even make a video on a "no-weld grinder build" and if it is succesful, post the video. We'll see
You can now buy the plate steel laser cut from our website www.HouseMade.us - makes the build very easy!
Hi. What type of grinding cutting wheel are you using to cut thick metal plate? Thanks
I use the cheap ones from Harbor Freight. They actually work as well as the expensive ones.
Why do you use such a large diameter wheel on motor drive? Seems like that would put a large strain on motor. Just curious cause I’m in the process of building one and I’ve got a 4” diameter wheel made already , now I’m second guessing.
How much room does the grinder take up? What would be the ideal size for a workbench for the grinder? I want to be able to move the grinder around my shop so that I don’t get dust all over my other tools on the workbench. If you have any other ways around this I would love any suggestions. Thanks
Its 24 inches deep with the work rest, 17 inches wide and 20 inches tall approximately. Many folks have built a rolling cart for the grinder with locking casters and it works great as a mobile unit.
Were you drilling and cutting into the table with the hole saw? I may have missed it but I didn't see a spacer to keep that from happening. Just curious.
Yep, I’m an idiot and hit the table. Lessons learned.
Goooood 😚😚😚😚
Amazing build video but here in the UK the cost of making this is nearly 3x the cost of having a pre-built 2x72 from a reputable knife site. Having said that it was still enjoyable to watch your process.
We sell kits in the UK and they aren't anywhere near the cost of a prefabricated unit. Thanks for watching. 🤙🏻 www.HouseMade.us
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Thats just awesome. Are you really using a 140 amp welder on that?
No I use a 220 Hobart Handler 190. Love that thing. 👊🏻
Just bought your plans mate
Hey Dave! Thank you man! I really appreciate you! 😁👊🏻
Bad ass!!!
Thank you brotha!!! 👊
I wanto one laka this
Question. Why such thick steel and why such big square tubing? Why not use 1 1/2" and 1 1/4" square stock with thinner walls? The steel plate you use could also be reduces thickness wise thereby making the entire build lighter in weight. Personally, I can't see steel stock with thinner walls being affected by tension? Just an observation among all the belt grinder builds on KZhead. Great video.
Thats a good question. Most grinders don't have the mass required to slow the vibration down from the motor and the belt speed. With 3/8" steel it softens the vibration down to nothing while also giving you a nice industrial feel, heavy & solid. I have used thinner steel grinders and they have a tendency to move and vibrate during use. This solves that problem and gives you a tool that will last many lifetimes. One other thing is the balance of the motor on the frame, with the weight of the motor the machine wants to live in the vertical position but with very little force you can turn the entire head 90 degrees to the left and it (without a locking mechanism) will stay put. All as a result of the mass of the grinder. Hope that helps. - Brian
salut house work j habite en france , je te felicite pour ton beau backstand , j ai acheter tes plans car j ai vraiment envie de fabriquer le meme pour moi meme sourtout le systeme de bascule m interesse beaucoup , you are the best men.!!!! ciao
Yo hice una pero se me sale la banda de sobre los rolos si alguien me pude como alinearnos agradecido
So do the ceramic disks last longer than the regular fiber disks?
Nope. I almost made a vid on this but didn’t want to piss off Klingspor. The harbor freight cutting wheels lasted the same amount of time. I will say the ceramic discs cut faster and are thinner but they just don’t last.
you are better off just buying some decent namebrand normal onse vs the expensive ceramics. They mostly lean on the better performance ceramic belt have with grinders, but thats not 1 to 1 comparable.
Can anyone recommend a lower cost VFD option? Looking for 1 PH 220v input, 1.5HP 3 PH output.
I’d be interested in that also. I’ll do some digging.
next time use double sided tape that is clear clean the metal really good it will stick like crazy
Great idea! Thanks!
Hello do you sell the plans for this
Yes, check out - www.HouseMade.us
Great design Mr. House, simplicity of form and function, not like that Schmidt monstrosity.
I do like the design here - but not sure how it's really that much simpler... House design uses tubing and Jeremy's uses welded flat bar stock? I suppose the motor mount here is simpler. I like that in Jeremy's design the same table can be used with both vertical and horizontal orientation.
You should talk to anyone who has built the Schmidt design. Some have built both and have found my design my easier to build and use. To each their own. 💪🏻
Will the VFD and motor you list work on [residental] single phase power? I have two 240v (30 amp breakers each) in the garage I could use. Just don't want to worry about phase issues or needing to get a phase converter to run this.
Yes, the VFD converts single phase to three phase. So in order for any motor to be variable you need it to run off of three phase power. However, the VFD will take your household or commercial single phase and convert it to three phase. And it works best off of 220. 👊🏻
How do you buy this equipment
www.HouseMade.us
Do you have a link and size of your rotary table?
Its a 4" table, works well. amzn.to/2TiAxUC
@@HouseMadeUS Thank you sir. I just got a very similar mill to yours and that is on my tooling list.
Do you do a metric version?
Yes. Check out the website. We have kits for sale in Europe as well as the plans both have metric and imperial measurements.
Us Aussies are all metric (you can blame the British for doing it to us - being a "colony " and all lol)
Haha! I prefer metric actually. Imperial is hard to understand at times.
When I was learning trade as a bricklayer / brickologist / masonary technician I had the old boys that tried to teach me in imperial and swore it was more accurate! It boggles my mind 7/32 ? What the hell? Fractions aren't my friend!! Yeah even the Aussie rock climbing difficulty grades start at 1 and go up where as the rest of the world have their unique country to country grades and they're all WELL over complicated!
Oh by the way guys keep up the great work!! Loving your channel!!
never mind my question was answered in the comments already :D
Kant Twisteess are the jam yo!
Yes they are! Love those things Dave At Evader Knives turned me on to them.
Ты просто класс Брайн Хаус Брависсимо
I seen that 4in hole you cut into your mill table, I would have died. Great info.
Yeah that took a minute to get over lol.
Hey are the Plans in mm ?or have anyone a Plan for a good grinder in mm?
Yes the plans are in both metric and imperial. 😁👊🏻
@@HouseMadeUS oh nice then i Wil build one Like this👌🏻
@@HouseMadeUS witch Format do the Plans have?
What BRAND are them gold drill bits? T I A
Those are the super cheap Harbor Freight bits. Haha!
He needs some parallels for his vise and put some sacrificial material under what your milling to save your rotary table
That’s true.
What is the size of the belt?
2x72 (inches)
How much would it cost to make one?
It depends on the options you choose. But around $500
When you grind all *hinges*....try super glue instead of magnetsi 🧲...but then u have clean up... 😂
Good tip! I never thought of that!
What's the total cost of everything including your blue print plans?
Depends on what VFD you go with and where you source your wheels, tube steel etc. usually cost with everything is around $600.
I'm building the tracking are and pillar. Your diagram on step 7 shows a 3/8 inch hole in the arm 3 inches from edge and is says not tapped. Your instructions say on page 21 under Figure 15 that the fulcrum hole is a 3/8 hole so drill a 5/16 inch hole. Is this hole tapped? or just straight through 3/8. Secondly the other two holes 1.5 inches from the edge, only the side hole is all the way through and the top one is only through the top? Your image doesn't show where the spring hole is located.
The fulcrum hole is 3/8 of an inch all the way through and not tapped.
The 3/8 tapped holes the left to right holes are all the way through for the tracking knob adjusted and the top hole just goes through the top and stops.
The spring hole can be anywhere on the bottom back plane. Centered is preferred.
OK FIRST HUGE MISTAKE! @2:30 you never vacuum up metal chips! You use compressed air to blow them all over your equipment, cloths, floor (so they can embed in your shoe sole and then you take them home) and that one last micro-chip goes in your eye so that at your next MRI it pulls through your optic nerve blinding you just before it passes through the rest of your soft squishy gray matter and out the back of your skull!
Haha! I just read this. It got buried. Hahaha! Yes, I have tried many different cleaning techniques, this stuff gets everywhere. LOL.
In Spain, you change a retrvisor and you no longer pass the Technical Vehicle Inspection (ITV)
What did this cost to build?
A typical finished and functional build is $800-$900 total.
What motor do you suggest? Can't find it on your webpage
@@zachtaylor8433 Make sure to always check the descriptions of my videos. I always include links to pretty much everything. But this is the link to the preferred motor: www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/motors/ac_motors_-_general_purpose/general_purpose/mtrp-002-3bd36
Great work. However....... can someone please explain to me why Americans find the need to remove the guard from their angle grinders? It’s a massive bug bear of mine. There is no advantage to remove it. I normally switch off straight away from videos where this exists. I did watch all of yours though cause of the high quality of the design and the video. But please be careful
If you'll look, you'll see that most of the 2 x 72 grinders you can buy, don't come with them. It's not just Americans either, I've seen plenty of EU contributors that have no guards.
Well the hinges what you made it's a game changer SIR GEE
Thank you! 🙌🏻
i,ll like to order wheels and some belts
Tôi mới lập kênh youtobe😊
Доставка в Россию сколько стоить будет ???
Мы не строим и не отправляем их. Спасибо.
@@HouseMadeUS Жалко !
As of now, this video has 13,036 views. I'm pretty sure 12,000 are from me at this point.
😂 What are you up to? Building along? Or do you just love my silky smooth voice?? 😂
House / Work Yes 😆
now i understand why they're worth 2 grand
Don't wear gloves around machinery. Ask me how I know!!!
Oh man, I kinda wanna know now. 😬
@@HouseMadeUS I was working on a big radial arm drill press drilling for 1/4" tap holes when my glove got caught by the drill and I had to break the drill off or get my hand and arm wrapped around the spindle. I had to break the drill while it was turning. It wasn't fun. I never wore gloves around any machinery unless it wasn't running after that.
are you the same guy that lived in Florida and worked on boats, and had a physiologist sister that was from Michigan? ...
I live and Florida, and did work on boats, but my sister isn’t a physiologist.
@@HouseMadeUSDid your sister go fishing with you on one of the videos and wear a blue swim suit? Just sayin, I know you seemed familiar and, thought that was what I remember on your previous tubers... Thanks. I like your present video s
Сердце кровью обливается, когда при сверлении, деталь под сверлом шатается. О какой точности и окончательном результате, можно комментировать... . (У нас таких называют - "РУКОЖОП" ( hand ass)
Я обновил настройки сверления, точность сейчас очень хорошая. Спасибо!
@@HouseMadeUS Ты, какие "настройки" изменил ? настройки "ШАТАНИЯ" СВЕРЛИЛЬНОГО СТОЛА"? ...Не смешно.
@@user-zs3xi3td7w Критиковать у нас все умеют !!!!
Vladimir Chekhov я не критиковал, а указал на ЯВНЫЕ недостатки...
колхоз конечно. Я бы даже не начал такое делать. буквально на коленке сделал . у нас в гаражах лучше делают