Grindin Tips?

[streetjibs]

jus wondering if anyone has any tips on gettin a light sharp grind...

ie prefered grinding disc? quick and lightly covering the rim.... ?

my grinds are ok but the discs heat up alot and iv heard stories of discs exploding from heat... dunno though

and havin read most of the pad reviews, most people recommend a lght sharp grind. So just curious bout best way of achieving one??

CHEERS

[br3n]

A disk might explode due to heat, I have no idea however you wont get anywhere near that heat grinding a rim... they're used to gring off welds etc on much harder steel for longer amounts of time.

As for the best grind.. Its essential you use a new or very new disk, The older the disc the softer the corner gets and crapper the grind will be. Any grind disk will do.

[Tomm]

Any grind disk will do.

A lot of people swear by cutting discs rather than grinding discs, I've never found much difference.

[Krisboats]

I use these steel cutting discs i found at muy local hardware shop. They have a much more defined weave on them, similar to carbon fiber weaves, and they hold their sharpness very well. A new one always gives a nicer grind, so quite often i find i'll buy a disc and use it for one side of the rim, then flip the disc over and do the other side. However, should you not want to shell out loads on new discs you can sharpen them up by holding them against a brick/rock/old rim/car door and letting the disc wear into a point.

Hold the grinder at 90 degrees, and skim over it very quickly trying not to go over the same bit twice. If you have a wider rim like a ronnie, do the top half of it with one skim, and do the second half with a second skim. You want to be covering around 4-5 inches of rim with each skim, this way you'll get more defined grooves in the rim... making a better breaking surface. Always go clockwise round the rim for both sides of the wheel.

My preffered method is the one above, but holding the grinder with one hand and leaning into it to put a bit of weight behind it, this usually makes the grind last an awful lot longer, while not noticeably affecting the pad life.

This is how mine turn out:

[streetjibs]

BRILLIANT!

thanks guys... will try krisboats method.

its amazing how crap my grind is atm and the pads work sooo dammmn goooood! so might let it be for a while...

but kris's grind looks shithot... definately doin that wen i do grind next.

[mods]

A lot of people swear by cutting discs rather than grinding discs, I've never found much difference.

Use a metal disk rather than a maissonary one..

[powerz]

im finding this post very useful, as im strugling to get a good deep grind.

iv'e been using a diamond cutting disc which says on it "for building materials" and ive tried a metal grinding disc but what ever pressure or angle i use it just comes out crap, i could get a rougher surface with sandpaper so im guna go buy some metal cutting disc's and give it another go.

[Danny Kearns]

Does anybody reccomend a aluminium grinding disc for sharp girnds ?

Im after a really sharp grind.

Danny.