vince57

put some cover plates on it, looks a lot smarter and runs much smoother than the mk1 probably due to buying a better quality grinder to start with

used the granite because it was only £12.99 at the local supermarket, its nice and flat, hardwearing and doesnt corrode, used one before on the mk1 and its held up well over 2 years, its nice and smooth with a couple of strips of hockey tape under the boot holder, tried felt but found it too squashy

not sure if you would call it hockey, we all get kitted up chase round after a little flat rubber ball and hit each other a lot.

almost there, just cover plate and a bit of paint to finish, have test cut with it and happy with the results

A 2005 Nissan Primera Diesel with intergalactic miles on the clock, an average week sees 3 trips to the rink (totalling 200miles!) in season then sees at least one more Ice/rollerhockey game for me or the lad at weekend (usually one each) involving a minimum of 65 mile round trip could be 200 mile!. It smokes a bit it shakes a bit rattles a bit and thankfully keeps going to rinks all over the north of England Wish i could get something nice and fancy but then would have to cut back on hockey! UK diesel is approx $10/gallon or £1.40/litre spend twice what i do on training/subs for me and the lad just fuelling the car to get there!

went with the grippers as a known good value quantity, a pair of what you see in the pic set me back a whole $90 and $70 was the wheels here in the uk. was thinking the 11k as they got plenty of the black white thing going on

just finished these bad boys, (advantages of working nights at an engineering shop) contain a designed in +11mm 7 deg heel rise to suit an ice boot which of my skates should meet mr bosch powerdrill a) existing inline converted vapor xxxx b) rbk 11k c) bauer x60 d) ccm u+12

not finished yet , still got to make cover plates, finish grind the holder , paint etc, hopefully post some pics of my finished article when done, if i can figure out why the forum keeps k.o. ing my hosted image links. saw a used wissota make £900 on ebay some months back so here's hoping!

some of the Ice boot conversions i have done for my lad, 4 wheel inlines on 64 mm wheels look wrong and clumsy to me, top one is a 3x80mm which is probably a bit tall, the 3x72 one which is the lower one looks better and is used very effectively, lower frame is 3mm carbon and has taken some serious use over 2 years on several boots, upper frame is 2mm carbon with a heel spacer and is relatively unused at present http://imageshack.us...6/dscf0797.png/

just finishing off 2 new grinders in the next couple of weeks, probably chuck one new one and my old one on ebay, heads up if anyone is keen, am located in manchester uk and willing to spend time training a new owner how to use it.

http://www.facebook....91&l=b225c7ffce as a time served toolmaker and cnc programmer i found this project reasonably straightforward as a task and had some really good help from my local professional sharpener who also built his own kit. really the hard work is in getting a nice accurate adjustable holder set on a flat plate, grinder alignment should be good but not critical as the diamond will dress the radius at a consistant height provided the dressing mechanism is well made and aligned. my grinder has a fixed dressing position and a travelling wheel but i am soon going to make another grinder with a static wheel and travelling diamond. i used a modified digital tyre tread depth measuring device on my skate holder so that i can easily dial in say 0.1mm of height adjustment to compensate for slightly thinner blades or wind on a full 1/2mm for doing figure blades. Took a while to make in dinnertimes and evening at work, used welder, surface grinders, lathe , cnc milling machines to finish however been brainstorming today and recon a hardware store special might be posssible using common handtools however there would be a lot of filing and hand finishing. Buying an adjustable skate holder and making the grinder would be another option.

i know this is a really old post, was researching if anyone else had built a sharpener, i built my own sharpener for less than £100 however i had acess to a fully equipped workshop with welding and machining equipment, a homemade effort would not be impossible with some skill, knowledge and basic fabrication tools, e.g my table was a granite chopping board (flat hardwearing and doesnt rust) frame was welded from heavy angle iron, grinder was a cheap £25 bench unit with one end chopped off, rest was made up from odds and ends of metal stock at work. have sharpened over 100 pairs of skates with no problems ,