Quote Originally Posted by DGilloon View Post
One of the things that I have learned (and relearned, and relearned) is about the time value of money. I could spend a get deal of time looking for scrap and second hand shops to cobble together something that might or might not work based on some half assed idea I had in order to save a little money. Or I could spend a littler greater amount of money on something that was designed for the job and will work correctly the first time, saving me a greater amount of time. Time is the one asset that you can never recover.
Exactly!

That is why in the end, I bought a professional belt grinder, rather than building one myself. That way I can use the time I would have spent building it, into using it and then recovering the money by selling some of the things I've made.