Need a bench grinder for making lock picks!

I want to make lock picks out of hacksaw blades with a bench grinder.

I really don’t want to spend a lot of money on a bench grinder and would like to know if this one is alright or not. I am probably only going to be using it for making lock picks so it doesn’t need to be great.

The cheapest andok looking one I could find:

http://www.homedepot.com/Tools-Hardware-Power-Tools-Grinders-Bench-Grinders/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xglZas7r/R-100670926/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053#BVRRWidgetID

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im setting up my word turning workshop in my girl friends shed – this is the list of items i think i need to get, where can i cut costs to have least impact on my work?

from http://www.recordpower-thetoolshop.com/

CL3-CAM, 5 Speed Lathe with Cam Lock Toolrest and Tailstock 340.42

RPLB24-48_BST 85.10 (stand for lathe)

CL3/B_BST 42.54 (out bound bowl turning extension of lathe)

CWA140/160 1/2" Drill Chuck With No1 MT Arbor 21.27

RPBG8 8" Bench Grinder 51.05

23055 SUPERNOVA2 Chuck 110.63

Shipping (Carriage) 26.09
VAT 118.48

total = 795.58

and from http://www.axminster.co.uk/

Axminster Safety Visor 7.16

Crown ‘Axminster’ Turning Tool Set (5 Pce) 99.50

Axminster Sawtooth Extension – 19.95

Axminster TiN Coated Forstner Bit Set – Metric (15 Pce) 19.95

total = 146.56

942.14 pounds

i would ideally like to spend 800 pounds or less – where would you cut costs?

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I have small 6061 aluminum parts. I currently use polishing compound with a buffing wheel on my bench grinder, but the extremely small size of the parts make it tough to hold onto them, and since I have several hundred to polish, it is very time consuming.

I borrowed a friend’s vibratory polisher (the kind used to polish brass ammunition casings) but that did not work at all. Even after 24 hours, I did not see any results. I thought maybe the media wasn’t rough enough, so I tried glass beads from my sand blaster, but that didn’t work either. (It did however shine up some copper pennies I threw in there as a test.) I finally tried play sand, but all that did was smooth off the rough edges, and give my parts an overall "matte" finish (the exact opposite of what I wanted.)

Has anyone used a tumbler to polish aluminum with good results? If so, what media did you use?

I was also thinking of a rock tumbler, but again, what media would work?

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I am looking for a fast and CHEAP way to make aluminum powder the fastest way possible (the finer the better!!!). I do not have a blender to ruin or a coffee grinder or a bench grinder!!! I need it ASAP so please help!!!

P.S I’ve heard of putting aluminum into a alkaline base drain cleaner but it has a VERY HIGH possibility of an explosion, so I don’t want to use it! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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hi, i want to make a shuriken out of a screw driver its about 1cm in diameter and 13cm long ( from the tip to the end of the metal shaft) is that an ok size to make one from and the metal tip is a cross but this is the main question i want to ask has a magnetic coating is that ok to use a bench grinder to shape it to a sharp point or will i need one without the magnetic coating? if its not a verry good size please tell me some specifications for a good one and is a double sided shuriken an easier option. thanks

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i can grind it down on the bench grinder and it has stains and i found it in a creek in NSW, aust.

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just got a turkish mauser. the guy i bought i from was a idiot he tried sporterizing it by cuting down the stock then putting laquer all over it (dumbass didnt even bother taking off the stock for this) and the rear sight is stuck in the 100 yard adjustment because of this. then he put camo ducktape all around it and it has that sticky feeling ducktape leaves once its been removed. this rifle is a good rifle good action, Great rifling. still has some casomoline here and there and fouling. im wanting to know where i can purchase a turkish military stock for it. and wat i should do to get all the cosmo and fouling and laquer off the gun ive heard soaking the gun in deisel (or kerosean) would weakin up the cosmolean is this true? wat about oven cleaner or pain thinner to get the laquer and fouling off? and im wanting to make the bolt real shiny should i just take steel wool to it or should i get a bench grinder with a wheel buffer? please tell me how to clean this gun up and restore it to origanal condition i have never seen a gun as dirty as this one and it sure would look good sittin next to my gustov 1920 6.5 swed. also wat accuracy have you gotten out of yalls turks? can the turkish action handle the hot 8mm loads?

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I have a pair of rimless glasses that I’d like to re-shape slightly. You can see photos of them, along with the proposed cuts, here:

http://www.troglodyne.com/glasses/glasses.html

Not sure an optical lab would do it. If they won’t:
- What kind of tool would I use? (Dremel? Bench grinder with a very fine wheel?)
- Would the reduction I have in mind affect the optics?
- Do tinted lenses have the particles mixed in with the plastic? (Wouldn’t want to chip any film.)

I don’t want to go to the hassle of trying to find different lenses when these are 75% there.
@Footprintz
I don’t understand how the holes are involved at all. Why can’t the lenses be unscrewed, the corners of the lenses be edged by hand, and then screwed back together? If you’re talking about some kind of jig where a template is used, that would seem to imply that accurate symmetry with both cuts can’t be obtained any other way. (I guess I’d have to see a picture of what you’re talking about.) When you say ruin the lenses, are you talking about the optics or shattering the lenses? Does the following video have anything to do with this:

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