Very nice machine 👍

Your mechanical skills are impressive. As a very new person who just recently fell in love with opal and rock polishing in general I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. The prices just to get started were a bit of a shock.

Awesome, thanks for sharing your design i love it

thanks for the post, best how I built a cabbing machine video on youtube. that motor would probably last for years just the way it is.

GREAT JOB Shiney

Fantastic machine and explanations.

very inspiring!!! thanks for sharing

Really good job on that grinder! Looks really practical!

Thnks this information how to setup this machine very interesting idea.

Fantastic

Awesome cabbing machine!

I love when people come with their own designs!!!! My dad was like that always making things new designs and improvisings with whatever he had in stock. People like this are GENIUSES!! GREAT DESIGN!! I subscribed and will watch the rest of your videos.

Awesome machine! I've been searching YT for a video on how to do this. Instead of using a pulley system I was thinking of using the 'bench grinder' layout which would have 3 wheels mounted on each side of the motor. Is there any particular reason (pro/con) you chose the pulley setup for your machine? Just trying to figure out what arbor size I'd use for the bench grinder layout. Was that the reasoning for the pulley setup? Overall, well done and I appreciate all the detail you put into the video!

nice awesome very helpful idea.

Very smart, I like your design.

Thats great work mate !.

Tx for making this video m8, I got one done very similar to yours, the only thing I would advise is get a longer shaft and place the pully wheel on the outside of the box that would save you form all the splashing

Genius! This will help me alot

Think I have machine envy. That's an amazing bit of kit! I can only dream of having one of those for cutting and polishing my opals. Nice to see another northerner too. I'm in colne...

Nice

Excellent design, it looks very user friendly. I tried for months to build my own from a bench grinder with arbour adapters but it wasn’t going to work. I contacted CabKing and they sold me the motor, shafts,spacers. I built a housing for the wheels but not nearly as nice as yours. I used two big coffee containers for water supply that’s gravity fed too. If you have a strong support you could use a 5 gallon water cooler bottle that would last a long time. Can you tell me how you clean or dress your 80 grit wheel? I have a dressing tool but I’m not getting good results. I find I can’t get my wheel sharp again and the initial grinding takes longer than before. Also I use Baltic Abrasives wheels, very good quality 👍 Also, I want to make a wet saw that will slice bigger stones, any links or diy prototypes you’ve found work? I have a cheap wet tile saw from the hardware store that can only cut about 1” depths. I think a lot of people would be interested in making their own machines if they had a parts breakdown and were able to avoid welding, boring, metal bending, you could compete with the big companies. Love the design 👍🇨🇦🍻

So a flat lap could do all of this. A lot more work, but you really don't need all these separate machines.

Mate you have done a great job. The whole thing looks just fantastic. But why didn’t you turn the machine on to show us how it works??!! Any chance you could tell us about the cost in details please?? Cheers mate.

But all in all nice machine.

Hi, Thanks for uploading such an informative video, I was wondering where you purchased your nylon plastic spacers from as I’ve looked everywhere and can’t seem to find them in the dimensions that you are using, also could you tell me what length of SPA pulley belt you are using, Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Very impressed with you machine have you any sizes for me to have a go thanks

Great Job Could have ran the drain out the back or side so that you don't have to keep it on blocks.

Very nice build! I'm looking to do something similar and found a low speed buffer that has 4.5" 5/8 arbors coming out of each end. I have found some 5/8" extenders for angle grinders -- so the are probably true enough & strong enough -- but I was really hoping to find a way to adapt 1" shafts -- but no joy yet. I was thinking of using 6" wheels on an 8" 1750rpm buffer as the base for the build. I can order diamond wheels with adaptors that go down to 5/8 -- but I'm sure all the pro machines use 1" shafts for a reason. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

what are the measurments of the shell?

How do you replace the wheels? It feels very difficult.

What are the dimensions of the shroud?

Hello sir, where can i get the parts? I mean the arbor shaft? I search almost 2-3 weeks but I can’t find . Or is the (Rod) arbor shaft one piece? Or more pieces attached to each other. If you know how can i find it it would be big help for me thank you 🙏🏻

Those hard wheels are not sintered, they are plated.

How did you attach the bearings to the sides?

I bet you enjoy a cup of tea don’t you

Hello do you build them for people if you do would be very interested in buying one of them please

the aquarium airline that you used, what size was it?

How much machine??

Hi it’s me again can you give me a list of what Diamond Grit wheels I need to Oder from cabbing king thanks 🙏

You really should have used stainless steel for the inner tube frame, at least that's how I would've done it, cause it's worth it for sure in the long run.

Hi it’s me again not herd back from you about building one for me hopefully 🙏 hear back from you soon thanks

Can i see your machine cutting stones?

what a great video learned a lot, would love to make one myself , gonna save this video for later reference , subbed so I can catch you later, if you get time check my channel, you'll be warmly welcomed, thanks for sharing, have a great day