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Van Norman Flywheel Grinders

The Best Flywheel Grinders 2024

The Best Flywheel Grinders 2024

By Lyn Borchert
March 14, 2024

The Van Norman by Irontite FG5000 sets the standard for flywheel grinders. The unparalleled performance, reliability, and convenience it offers far outweigh the initial investment.

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Grinding Stone vs. CBN Grinding Wheel

By Lyn Borchert
July 20, 2023

Discover the Pros and Cons of using Abrasive Stone verses a CBN Wheel. This brief article will give you the basics of why you might want to choose one over the other for a particular job in your shop.

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Make your Flywheel Grinder last a lifetime

By Lyn Borchert
October 20, 2021

You’ve invested money, time, and energy to get a flywheel grinder working in your shop. And if you are like most people you are glad you did because it is doing the work, saving you time, and even creating more business.

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How to Center Flywheels on the Table

By Lyn Borchert
January 30, 2020

Do you struggle to get a flywheel mounted to the very center of your rotating table? You nudge and nudge it and nudge for what seems like forever and it never gets perfectly centered.

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FG5000 Flywheel Grinder: An Industry Leader in Performance

By Lyn Borchert
November 13, 2019

Do you have the simplest to use, time-tested, easily maintained flywheel grinder on the market? Poorly trained operators and improperly maintained machinery are often cited by OSHA. Why not choose a grinding machine with an uncomplicated interface?

Getting the Most Performance out of Your Flywheel Grinder

By Lyn Borchert
November 7, 2019

Anytime you’re working on a vehicle’s clutch, you’ll probably need to resurface the flywheel. Some manufacturers even require it to maintain the warranty.

Choosing the Correct Flywheel Grinding Stone

By Lyn Borchert
September 10, 2019

Changing out the grinding stone every time you start on a new flywheel is not a waste of time. Not matching your grinding stone to the material being worked will waste far more time than taking a couple of minutes to switch out the stone.

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CBN Grinding Wheels

By Lyn Borchert
July 25, 2019

Probably the best part is that they last longer. On average, you can expect a CBN grinding wheel to last about 10 times longer than a comparable standard flywheel grinding stone.

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Should You Replace that Flywheel?

By Lyn Borchert
July 12, 2019

How to know when to replace a flywheel. Should you grind that flywheel or pitch it?

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What You Need To Know When Buying a Flywheel Grinder

By Lyn Borchert
November 3, 2017

What to know when you are looking to buy and Flywheel Grinder.

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E-Z Lock Insert vs Replacing the Table Shaft

By Lyn Borchert
October 6, 2017

Using threaded inserts in your flywheel grinder table can save you down time and the expense of replacing your table drive shaft. Because if you boogie up the center threads of your flywheel grinder table you have no choice but to replace the drive shaft where those threads are cut.