Normspeed Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 The primary use of the wire wheel is to grab your workpiece and hurl it, at the speed of light, across your workspace and into the next dimension. But when you aren't using it for that, it sure cleans up old hardware nice. I wonder if Walter P. Chrysler ever dreamed that some day people would spend their time reclaiming 50 year old bolts? Check out those filler plugs, ever seen one that clean on an actual tranny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobT-47P15 Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 That plug looks like chrome plated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatS.... Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 ever seen one that clean on an actual tranny? Why, yes Norm, I have No, I didn't just paint over them, one or two were hurled across the garage while being wire wheeled:eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1948Skip Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Norm, I sure liked your thoughts on the wire wheel slinging parts into the void. Sometimes it goes bad when the wire wheel eats a part. I was wire brushing my dip stick from the '48 Ply and the wire wheel grabbed the flat wire and took it completely around the wheel and cracked the back of my left hand, causing 3 1/2 long cut and almost severing a large blood vessel. The dip stick then hit me on the side of my belly on the right side and left a horse shoe shape cut and nasty bruise. The event was a scary one as I live alone and would have been quite a mess if I had sliced that vain on the back of my hand. So guys, be very vigilent and maintain a strong grip on the part you are wire brushing. My misfortune cost me $20 to get another dip stick from California as the wire wheel bent the living day lights out of the original stick Skip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billwillard Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Skip, Are you related to me? We sure have the same kind of luck, if you want to call it that. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Coatney Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 I will not even make a guess as to the mileage I have put on my wire wheel. It also works as a fingerprint remover. Problem is they always grow back in the same pattern. Every fastener used on my engine assembly paid a visit to the wheel before landing on the engine. I once stopped in a Home Deposit to buy a replacement wire wheel. I ask the young gentleman who was the tool specialist (I knew he was the tool specialist because of the badges and medals he wore on his nice orange vest) where I might find a wire wheel. Got the blank deer in headlights look as he did not have a clue what I was asking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1just4don Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 I dont get stuff to fly so far cause my motor on THAT arbor is so little I can lug it down IF I get it too tight. So my solution would be to put it on an arbor with a SMALL motor. Still turns good and moderate pressure still cleans well BUT jambing it will cause it to stall. It even stalls to quick when starting it up,,,have to 'throw' the belt in the direction you wanna start it in(NOT recommended) cause its soooo old the starter windings are shot. Should have replaced it YEARS ago,,but never got a roundtoit, and never found a small enough motor. "IF" that wire wheel would be on my BIG grinder,,ie the regular bench grinder it would have killed me LONG ago!!! My uncle used to have a BIG bench grinder with a BIG wire wheel and it WAS dangerous!! last time I needed a new wire wheel I got the same blank stare,,,dont feel like a lone stranger!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Lustig Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Make sure you turn it off before you go giving it a hug. The wire wheel is one of those tools that's been on my "buy" list for a while. It's moved up pretty high in the list. Possibly the next thing I'll buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobT-47P15 Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 I think the guy who buffed my stainless wears a pair of nice heavy quality leather work gloves when buffing and grinding. And some safety glasses is a good thing, too. I've had to look for things on the floor also. And it did yank something out of my hand not long ago. Just didn't come back and beat me with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm's Coupe Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Norm, I used my wire wheel just yesterday. However, didn't hug it. Don't think I would want to hug that thing even when it's off. Might tend to stick ones self hugging it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueskies Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 The primary use of the wire wheel is to grab your workpiece and hurl it, at the speed of light, across your workspace and into the next dimension. My baldor buffer has the same propensity to hurl objects across the garage, but they mysteriously change shape in the process. The first piece of stainless I tried to buff was the center hood strip. I managed to get it caught and bend it into a near perfect 90 degree boom-a-rang that went spinning across the room. Luckily it didn't return and take my head off... The second time I had a buffing mishap, I decided that, since I was now a master of buffing parts with the baldor after making all the stainless on the car shiny again, that it would be great to buff the temperature guage cap tube so that it would gleam under the hood with the rest of the eye candy. Managed to wrap the tube around the buffer and whack the guage head into the wall bending the face of the guage into a near perfect 90 degree boom-a-rang. Luckily the cap tube survived the corkscrew, and I was able to straighten the guage face before anyone noticed... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normspeed Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Pete, I think you must have picked up the Australian model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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