tungsten choice

[Brian Ski]

I am using one of these dedicated to tungsten, grinding point up (wheel rotation is top down). [/url]

ken

Not knocking you but I tried that years ago with a chisel, grinding up. It caught the wheel, flipped the chisel right out of my hand and threw it across the room. Ever since then I grind down or true. Spooked the crap out of me... Don't know if it was a fluke or a safety issue. I guess you live long enough you see lots of stuff.

[KSmith]

Not knocking you but I tried that years ago with a chisel, grinding up. It caught the wheel, flipped the chisel right out of my hand and threw it across the room. Ever since then I grind down or true. Spooked the crap out of me... Don't know if it was a fluke or a safety issue. I guess you live long enough you see lots of stuff.

That method is the way they recommend grinding tungsten...I recall something about less contamination that way. It works ok, but I'm sure you could screw up and flip one out. Not had a problem so far.

ken

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Not knocking you but I tried that years ago with a chisel, grinding up. It caught the wheel, flipped the chisel right out of my hand and threw it across the room. Ever since then I grind down or true. Spooked the crap out of me... Don't know if it was a fluke or a safety issue. I guess you live long enough you see lots of stuff.

I don't want to sound preachy or anything either but grinders can kick back as much as a bench saw can. The difference here, of course, is that when you are sharpening something, the object that can kick back has that sharp edge and point. Everyone here wears a full face guard when sharpening, right? Be careful out there. I really don't want to hear about anyone from this forum getting hurt. I'm done. Back to your regularly scheduled programming .....