Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-10
The way to Put "a GrindstoDe i'm
1850. Order.

Every grindstone should run as true at
the periphery as the face of a milestone,
or it will be impossible to grind any
edge-tOol to a complete edge for whet-
ting. The face of the periphery OF
good stone should always be a trif1e cir
cular, and never following. Now, then,
if a stone wabbles from right to left. or
hobs up and down, only fraction of an
inch in several places, the first thing will
be to turn off the face of the periphery
true. If the stone is not hung about as
true as it can be, so let it be rehung. In
some instances, a stone is worn oil hall
an inch or more on one side OF the eye
than on the opposite side. When this IS
the case, let the journal be secured near
one side of the eye. The stone should
then be supported by strong frame that
will not spring when the periphery is
being turned off. 1t is not necessary to
incur the great expense of an iron jour
nal with polished bearings and friction
rollers, unless one desires to drive the
stone with a treadle.
Six years ago the writer dressed out
an oak journal just large enough to be
driven into the eye of a grindstone,
turned two hearings two inches IN dl-
ameter. which were fitted to wooden
boxes pushed with pieces of an old boot,
and wooden crank was fitted to the
journal. A leathern cover over each
bearing prevented grit from dropping
where any of it would come in contact
with the bearings. That stone has run
seven years, and the bearings are not
worn One-siXteenth of an inch smaller
than they measured when the Journal
was fitted up in the turning lathe.
Whatever may be the material or which
the bearings are made, they should mt
the boxes so neatly, that there Will be no
perceptible play or work either endWays
or sideways. When the stone is secured
to the frame where it is to be used, let
man stand on a plank over the top OF
the stone, but close to the periphery, and
with a nail-rOd, the back of an Old
scythe, or piece of wire one-fourth OF
an inch in diameter, turn off the peri
phery true A small rod Of soft iron
will cut away a larger shaving than
steel instrument.
Atthe manufactures of grindstOnes the
turner's procure large bars of the sottest
iron. have one end drawn out as small
as a ladys little finger, then the end IS
bent upward so as to stand in position
ment. a turner of grindstones will cut a
groove through a stone in less than five
minutes. When turning off a very un-
even periphery, let three or four creases
be gOuged out until the lowest depres-
sion is reached then let the ridges be
dressed off with a small and sharp cold
chiseI: and always work from the right
or left side towards the middle of the
periphery. Otherwise, large chips may
be cleaved from the corners of the stone,
which should be kept flush and true.
Now that the periphery is turned off
true, let the drawing knife, the broad
axe and other large tools be ground first,
and aim always to keep the periphery
trifie higher in the middle, by holding
large tools near the sides, rather than in
the middle. When one is grinding small
tools, it is always more convenient to
hold them near the middle of the peri
phery.
If every bungler is allowed to grind
his meat-ax and pick-ax, his grub-hOe
and bOg-hOe, his plow-shares and bush
hooks, and everything else on a grind
stone, the periphery will soon be in such
an uneven condition that even a master
mechanic will find it exceedingly difficult
to grind a plane-irOn or a Chisel at all
satisfactorily. The periphery must ran
true, or the basil of any tool cannot be
ground true.
The foregoing suggestions have been
penned, not for master mechanics, but
for beginners, who viii grind and whet
and whct and grind their best tools on
some wabbling and bobbing grindstone,
and then wonder and surmise what is
the reason they cannot produce a more
complete cutting edge. Let us see a
mechanics grindstOne, and we will write
out for you a true mechanical chart of
his controlling attributes of character,
with as much accuracy as phrenologist
can prepare a chronological chart of
ones chronological developments
AmerjcGn Builder.