grinding wheel

Hello everyone Awhile back someone mentioned that they were using a brown Aluminum Oxide grinding wheel to sharpen their tools. I have looked every where trying to find one. Could you please tell us where you get them, and what grit you use. I bought a new 8 inch delta variable speed grinder the other day, and would like to try one of the stones that was mentioned...

Thanks.... Lee Tollett

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Leetollett
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I use a white wheel at the moment because it is on hand. It is extremely soft, however, and I find that with the use of a jig and HSS tools, the friability is unnecessary and even undesirable.

I do have a question for Darrell - and bit off topic from the original topic. Do you know if a tax or fee required to bring personal hobby woodworking equipment into Canada when accepted as a resident immigrant/citizen? And if so, what is the valuation based upon? And this is going to sound stupid, but do you use 120/240v 60Hz power up there in the Great White North?

Thanks,

Greg G.

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Greg G

Hi Greg,

I'm also a Canuckistani. Power is the same as the US.

AFAIK, there is no fee if the equipment is for personal use only. And if you can prove that. However, many hobbyists carry a truckload of stuff with them. I've never made a dime from my stuff, but know if I emigrated to the US, they'd be asking me some questions.

The best place to get definitive answers is here:

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As well, your nearest consulate office will be able to answer a lot of questions for you. IIRC, you're near or in Atlanta, and we have an office there.

Consulate General of Canada Address: 1175 Peachtree Street N.E., 100 Colony Square, Suite 1700, Atlanta, Georgia 30361-6205 Tel.: (404) 532-2000 Emergency toll-free to Ottawa:

1-888-949-9993 Fax: (404) 532-2050 E-Mail: snipped-for-privacy@international.gc.ca Internet:
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If you have firearms, and want to bring them into the country, ask specifically about that. Bringing them in is allowed,but there are restrictions. Handguns generally are not allowed.
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Tanus

Wow, Tanus, thanks for the info. I'd already been over the web site and have copies of all the forms required. Did not know, however that there was a Canadian Consulate in Atlanta.

As for the handguns, I seriously doubt I would need one once out of this country. You don't have collusive NeoCon scum there, right?

Greg G.

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Greg G

We do. AMAOF we have our version of NecCon in power in the federal gov't. We run on the 10% rule here. Our population is about 10% of the US, our GNP is 9-11% of US GNP, and the party in power likes what Washington does about 10% of the time.

I've followed your thread elsewhere on Cobb County, and I can't think of a place like that here, but I'm sure we have it as well. Stupidity knows no county, state, provincial or national boundaries.

Where are you aiming for to settle in Canada?

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Tanus

I'll chime in. In 2005 we drove from here to Alaska, via Colorado and Utah. The trip across Canada to Alaska took 3 or 4 days. In that time we saw only one police car, and it was parked in a small town. In that total of 7 or 8 days in Canada we did not see one law officer, nor did we need one.

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Gerald Ross

Hey, Gerald,

How is the spalted hackberry you were working on last year? Or was it spalted sweetgum. I still don't come up with much in the way of green wood around here - but I don't go out much. The last time I went to Home Depot to order a set of custom windows I had to listen to some guy I apparently went to high school with tell me about the 'tards on the school board and the death of the serial arsonist son of an idiot, school board attorney and his collusive, low-life accomplices. It gets really old being reminded of them and the worthless, corrupt GA courts that repeatedly protected them at an ordinary citizen's expense. Anyway...

Funny you include your location in your tagline - my sister used to live in Macon, and I visited there quite often when my nieces and nephew were young. I used to work with the brother of your ex-US Representative, Dawson Mathis, when I moved to Florida. Dated a girl in Gray for a while but her loser brother and father were too much to bear. He drove a school bus, of all things. In retrospect, kinda sorry I didn't take her up on her offer when she showed up at my door 5 years later with a nursing degree, a new car, and a desire to get married - still wearing a ring I gave her at 18. Ah, the regrets of a misspent youth.

Thanks for the insight on Canada. When I was in NYC last September a number of people suggested I go to Nova Scotia or Quebec. Should have, but didn't. Wasn't sure what was needed to cross the border, time was running out, and didn't take the funds for any additional extended trips - especially after the 7 other states I visited. The only ones remaining were parts of the west, Alaska, and Hawaii.

That was one heck of a road trip you took. What on earth would possess you to drive from GA to Alaska - and come back? ;-)

One scene I've fortunately not seen in ANY episode. ;-) Then of course there's: "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life here."

Well, excuse the rambling - it gets pretty frustrating locked in this suburban cage, and I'm sure the original poster wonders what the heck happened to his thread on..... grinding wheels. Sheesh...

Greg G.

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Greg G

I've head that there has been a shift in policy since the late 90s.

10% misguided policy is still better than 100%. I seriously considered going to Australia in 1988, but they have also seen a shift in policy, and I'm too old to acclimate to driving on the wrong side of the road. ;-)

Neither does pure evil, apparently. But at least they won't be so personally intimate. This place is going down the tubes, and fast.

I have been looking around at Victoria, BC for about a year. I kept looking for a place in this country, but I don't have much confidence at this point that things are going to improve here before I'm dead. It would be nice to have a life again, free of meddling hands and inquisitive gawkers, and it looks like out of the country is my only choice. I just wish it weren't so darned cold - I _really_ dislike cold, which is why I moved to Florida. Little did I know they were going to stuff the place with criminal Bush cronies and the people I moved to get away from ended up there as well. A bunch of them are now in jail for various crimes, and a percentage were forced out of office in disgrace. I really can't comprehend why people vote such tools into office in the first place. But what can you do - especially when you're the lone voice of reason in an insane world of sycophants?

Thanks again for the info. I should fly up and spend a week to see what it's like. But those winters... Egads!

Greg G.

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Greg G

This is, of course, to ensure that no one hurts a criminal.

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CW

Southern Ontario or BC would be the place to go to avoid the worst of the Canadian winters. Where Darrell is would be less harsh too.

I'm near Ottawa and I don't think I remember a winter as weird as this one. We had more snow in December than we had all of last year and a week ago it was

-35. Two days later we got a deluge of rain.

Thoughts on moving, though: It doesn't matter where you go, there you are. I don't know if my country is any better or worse than any place else, Greg. It's just different. SSDD, by YMMV.

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Tanus

Greg G. wrote: snip

Sweetgum. Have sold nearly all the bowls made from it. Beautiful wood. I chase chainsaws. It's surprising what people cut down. I got a couple of large magnolias last spring. Most of my wood comes from less than a mile away.

The last time I went to

I had an uncle that sold moonshine, and drank what he didn't sell. He drove a school bus also. After he lost his license because of drunk driving he continued to drive the school bus.

In retrospect, kinda sorry

We had always wanted to go and now all the kids are scattered over the earth so we went.

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Gerald Ross

Well, there is always the 12 gauge - fine home defense in the upcoming urban food/water/fuel wars. I own a handgun by necessity, but don't "worship" it. Like any tool, it is dangerous in the wrong hands. But the cheap Saturday Night Specials made in Miami that they sell at the pawn shops and such are generally bad news. No easy answers, too complex a topic for a woodturning forum, and definitely off-topic. Keep this up and I'll be branded a pariah. :-o

Greg G.

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Greg G

Well, it takes 10-13 months for them to process an application, unless you "fast track" it by claiming refugee/persecution status. Having either an employer or a Canadian citizen request helps as well. I remember from when I sold refurbed military surplus Tektronics oscilloscopes to Canadians that the VAT taxes were pretty steep. Was tempted to claim gift status, but that just wouldn't have been right. You sure have some nice looking young ladies in Victoria, though. ;-)

Thanks, and sorry for the hijack.

Greg G.

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Greg G

The US economy is tanking and the future looks bleak. It has been poorly managed, and the "common man" is currently an unconsidered entity in modern US policy. The moneychangers and war profiteers set policy at a heretofore unprecedented level. There is wisdom in what you say, yet it is not myself I am attempting to avoid, nor crooks generally. Wrong place for this, but this is why:

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A bit sloppy, but it gets the point across. The players involved are powerful, criminal, deeply entrenched in southern politics, and unfortunately still around, although one fled the country until the statute of limitations tolled and several others fled the state. Nice place, eh?

Greg G.

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Greg G

They must not have Dunkin' Donuts up there...

mac

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mac davis

No doubt about it, where there is more room there are less police. We supposedly have state police patrols in our county - and a road patrol officer in the sheriff department, but they don't come out to places where there are more trees than people, and never at night. I had to kick the door to get to my patient the other night because the boys with the big boots had gone home.

I remember a cartoon on the board in the squad room which showed a rear view of a love-handled well-armed cop at the gates of Hades. The caption was "police officer hell." To the right was a bowl of donuts, to the left, a magazines and bullets. With signs that said "take only one."

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George

A corollary would be that where there are fewer people there is less crime - resulting in less need for police. And far fewer funds to buy helicopters, hopped-up pursuit vehicles, swat team gear, and fancy Glock pistolas like they purchase here.

When young, this area was sparsely populated. You actually knew the police and they knew you. They knew who was trouble and who was just an overly exuberant kid. Now we're all innominate marks for revenue.

Made considerable difference when they pulled you over for flying down a back road with a homemade siren and red-lights atop a '66 Corvair.

Greg G.

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Greg G

Or a early 60s Volkswagen Beetle as someone used in one of the small towns here in Kentucky in the late 70s.

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Scratch Ankle

I've been using the Camel brand wheels made in Israel. The ones I use are available from Woodcraft and are blue. I like a coarser grit, so have a 36 (? I think) and an 80. Needless to say, most of the regular sharpening happens on the 80.

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Owen Lowe

Greg G. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Interesting attitude. I wonder if Canada really needs you.

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Hank

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