Skate sharpener problems

[metal man]

how are you holding the spinners.do you need slight pressure against the top part of the spinner,or are you just tightening up against the bearing hub?I have made a holder,but need help on the holder part.

[metal man]

I had a skate shop sharpen my my skates with the fbv 90/75.at the time I didnt have a tool to measure the depth of the hollow.I have tried sharpening my skates now myself with the 90/75 on a converter system for my machine.the glide is still great but the edges feel more like the bite of 1/2 roh.I am getting about a .0025 of depth.does this sound right?

[maineskate]

Originally Posted by beavboyz

You could also try posting this in the OMHA forum, there are a few guys in there that eat, sleep, and breathe skate sharpening.

Ok, so I'm an idiot! Now that's out of the way, will you please tell me how to locate the OMHA Forum?

[The Skate Truck]

Just bought a mobile skate sharpening business. Check it out.
http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=808082

[seabird]

just bumping to see if anyone is making a spinner system for the wissota using the blackstone spinners

[hamburglar]

Check with Wissota, they make a $200 universal holder, same design, maybe even better than the one Blackstone sells for $1500, and Blademaster for $800. IMO those prices are ridiculous and they're taking advantage of a market with few options. The Wissota price is very reasonable, but you have to buy the larger spinner direct from Blackstone as the wissota wheel is thicker than the mini-spinners.

[Eriks334]

Originally Posted by AHF

It's actually quite normal to have to make those adjustments from skate to skate. Remember, steel thickness varies slightly from brand to brand.

Having a 'master setting' that works for all skates would be nice, but I'm not familiar with such a holder...

As for the goalie skate...we use a different holder for goal skates:



There hasn't been a skate I haven't been able to do...

Why do you think blademaster does not sell this holder anymore??

[newfr4u]

interesting thread. how much does a personal FBV sharpener cost?

[vapor11]

$1000 for the blackstone x-01

http://www.blackstonesport.com/produ...category_id=23

[AIREAYE]

Originally Posted by Kessel

$1000 for the blackstone x-01

http://www.blackstonesport.com/produ...category_id=23

That's actually pretty good, since you can do both regular hollows and FBV.

[vapor11]

Originally Posted by AIREAYE

That's actually pretty good, since you can do both regular hollows and FBV.

I have no knowledge of skate sharpening or the machine itself but I think for every FBV/Radius it needs a "mini spinner" which appears to cost $15.. investing in one crossed my mind as it would maybe pay for itself after a few years but I don't think I would be able to experiment with the different cuts without purchasing the $15 spinners for each cut

Can anyone clarify that is how the machines work? If it was more simple turn a knob or make a few adjustments I might have been sharpening my own skates by now

[hamburglar]

The mini spinners from blackstone are $55 and the larger ones are around $85. the BFD shapers from blademaster are around $150. You need a system that will hold one of these spinners and dress your wheel. it can be integrated into the sharpener, or be a standalone piece that you touch up to the grinding wheel. at a minimum you're looking at hundreds of dollars to let a traditional system do FBV or BFD.

Originally Posted by Kessel

I have no knowledge of skate sharpening or the machine itself but I think for every FBV/Radius it needs a "mini spinner" which appears to cost $15.. investing in one crossed my mind as it would maybe pay for itself after a few years but I don't think I would be able to experiment with the different cuts without purchasing the $15 spinners for each cut

Can anyone clarify that is how the machines work? If it was more simple turn a knob or make a few adjustments I might have been sharpening my own skates by now

[Fisher sports]

Bauer ccm Reebok Graf all use different thickness blades..
on a side note if the blade is bent you will never get a true center if you don't straighten it.
90% of the skates i see have a huge bend in them.

some times you need to sharpen off center.

If you have questions feel free to contact me


www.fisher-sports-hockey.com

[coiner]

Haven't had any requests in a while, it might have to do with the difficulties in getting a spinner center to the exact blade center height. It also may have to do with slight inconsistencies in the spinners themselves. See the link below for a pic of the profile left by a fbv spinner, round hollow spinner, and circular diamond dresser.

http://s20.postimage.org/pwus1ifnx/hollows.jpg

It gets tough to align a skate blade, even when you're using a universal spinner holder. If the holder holds the spinner parallel to the table, that's good, but it needs to be at the right height. If you need to tilt the skate holder a bit forwards or backwards in order to meet the center of the dressing, the flat on the bottom of the skate won't actually be flat.
If you're using a tangent finder, it becomes SO much more tricky, because adjusting the tangent wheel not only changes the angle of the skate blade, it changes the height, so often when you have a high top edge, you adjust, and end up with an even higher top edge! The 3-D Wissota holder will make it less troublesome, but based on all the issues seen, it's doable, you just have to be careful doing it.