Edging with a bucket

[LENNY]

I have no water access at the new lab space. I know that Optronic could be the solution, but hate their edge polish quality.
I used to use a bucket on my very old Santinelli and just realized that essilor has their own filtration system also.
Does anyone use it?
How many jobs you cut a day?
How often you change the water?

TIA

[JuliaG]

I edge with a bucket, but we are a small practice. I do 15-20 jobs a week and change the water/clean every 100 jobs.

[Chris Ryser]

I edge with a bucket, but we are a small practice. I do 15-20 jobs a week and change the water/clean every 100 jobs.

No diamond wheel, on the stone edger. I edged with a bucket in 1964 in my apprenticeship, no choice that was the only thing available.

We changed the water whenever needed

[rbaker]

Same here, R&H Greyhound Rimless edger's and hand wheels with aluminum oxide wheels. They had a 1 pint water tank mounted on top of the wheel guard and valve that gravity fed the water to the wheel. The water drained into a bucket and we used n old coffee cup to transfer the water from the bucket back to the tank. It worked just fine unless you let the wheel run dry. You could always tell when this occurred by the aroma.We also used pitch for blocking before the advent of LMPA and occasionally made laps for those extreme Rx's.

What a blessing it was when diamond tooling was introduce although, a simple manual drip system was no longer adequate. Large tank, pumps and chillers are the rule today. Additionally, todays environmental regulations will get you busted for tossing a bucket of used coolant out of the back door.

[Chris Ryser]

Same here, R&H Greyhound Rimless edger's and hand wheels with aluminum oxide wheels. They had a 1 pint water tank mounted on top of the wheel guard and valve that gravity fed the water to the wheel. The water drained into a bucket and we used n old coffee cup to transfer the water from the bucket back to the tank.

During my apprenticeship I bevelled many lenses between -5.00 and - 15.00 diopter glass lenses because there were no automatic bevel edgers, only a flat edge grinding attachment on top of the machine working with belts and using formers.

Bevels had to be done by hand.

.........reusing used white grinding water was not allowed, only fresh from the tap.

[Tallboy]

I would listen to a chris & dick podcast.