I've been working on reducing the vibration in my Chinese 8" bench grinder.? Adding collars for the inner wheel flanges to rest against and making new flanges (ala Harold Hall's "Tool and Cutter Sharpening").? I was cursing having only the 1" rest, when I re-found the steady rest mod doc in the Files section.? Did not have a need for this mod until now.
Putting the rest in the mini-mill vise, with the middle slot edge aligned with the left side of the vise, it was just some up and back on the Y to give me a nice opening for my grinder shaft to fit through.? I wound up with a generous 0.885", and I could have gone even further, since I left about 1/32" on each side.? Maybe one day I'll build a larger rest with a nice flip top like many of the Myford guys have.
Mike
