Tiplap grinder

[Martin CargillParticipant @martincargill50290]

I have a Tiplap grinder. These machines are (or so I thought) just for dressing lathe tools. I have modified mine by mounting the motor further back and making square and hexagonal blocks housing a MT3 sleeve inside to allow me to hold and grind mills and drills. The MT3 sleeve also allows me to hold a drill chuck and my ER32 chuck to hold parallel shank tooling up to 20mm thus allowing me to sharpen most of my tooling.

Browsing the web today (because I have Covid and I'm bored) I found some pictures of the same grinding machines but they were being used for dressing the end of milling cutters using a simple indexing pin/disc setup. This setup uses the hole through the head of the machine to hold a simple spindle/chuck arrangement.

I would like to make something similar for my machine but before I do does anyone have a Tiplap with this same feature. I can obviously simply design and build one myself from scratch, but its got to be worth looking at what the manufacturer built first.

One of the tools I would like to be able to sharpen is a seven flute Rotabroach cutter and an indexing disc would make this possible.

Martin

[Martin CargillParticipant @martincargill50290]

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

For your indexing could you not use a finger a la clarkson?

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Some ti long time ago, there was an article on modifying a Tiplap into a cutter grinder.

Might be worth looking for it?

howard

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