New tool for the shop

[TAJ45]

Glad you made it back, Don. Too many didn't and for no good reason.

 

[Toolbreaker]

On a grinder once you mount the chuck you grind it flat. The toolmakers where i worked in a machine shop used a tub of butter for coolant when they ground them in. Kinda weird and messy but it worked

Crisco, maybe? Grease works well, also. Either one makes a mell of a hess, but it keeps the wheel from loading up & doing funky things to the chuck's surface geometry.

 

[hogpatrol]

This surface grinder is for sale near me. What a beautiful old machine...maybe better to look at than to use.View attachment 1177358

Hmmm.... DC motor on that antique? Probably.

 

[TAJ45]

Had not heard of the Crisco, butter or grease. Interesting. I would flood the wheel, therefore the chuck, found the high spot then proceeded a tenth or two (I think) at a time till all of the magic marker stripes disappeared.
Could NOT let it warm up.

 

[hogpatrol]

Had not heard of the Crisco, butter or grease. Interesting. I would flood the wheel, therefore the chuck, found the high spot then proceeded a tenth or two (I think) at a time till all of the magic marker stripes disappeared.
Could NOT let it warm up.

I remember old timers using carbon tet and cutting oil when belt sanding big plates on a planer mill. Cancer eventually got them.

 

[Steve morgan]

Had the electricity go away in the old days while blanchard grinding bucket dies. Sounded like a full auto.

I saw the same thing happen on a Blanchard. It had about 200 small parts on it. When it let go it flung parts, grinding wheel chunks etc. Out the top.
Everybody around it was on the floor crawling trying to get away. No body got hurt but everybody needed new shorts.

 

[butchlambert]

I remember old timers using carbon tet and cutting oil when belt sanding big plates on a planer mill. Cancer eventually got them.

We used carbon tet and Triclor in the 60s quite a lot.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I saw the same thing happen on a Blanchard. It had about 200 small parts on it. When it let go it flung parts, grinding wheel chunks etc. Out the top.
Everybody around it was on the floor crawling trying to get away. No body got hurt but everybody needed new shorts.

Like a mag base drill when a guy unplugs your cord

 

[TAJ45]

\\\\\\\ I can only imagine those consequences.

 

[wildfowler]

Maybe when it’s installed you could put up a picture for the one or two of us here who have no idea how something like that is used to illustrate what it looks like?

Thanks

 

[carlsbad]

Wildflower,
Will do. However, some of the professional machinists here are telling me I'm headed down the wrong path. -Jerry

 

[hogpatrol]

Wildflower,
Will do. However, some of the professional machinists here are telling me I'm headed down the wrong path. -Jerry

Just curious, what sort of machining and materials are you planning on using that unit for?

 

[paperpuncher]

Had the electricity go away in the old days while blanchard grinding bucket dies. Sounded like a full auto.

Days like those its good to have a change of undershorts in your locker

 

[carlsbad]

Just curious, what sort of machining and materials are you planning on using that unit for?

For example: Machining a small washer to a specified thickness.

 

[hogpatrol]

For example: Machining a small washer to a specified thickness.

I've done tiny ones on a surface grinder but with very light passes. What can happen is the part warps due to heat and breaks free of the magnet. Would have shields on all four sides just in case.

 

[hpshooter]

"Like a mag base drill when a guy unplugs your cord"

And don't forget to tie it off when working overhead on on a vertical surface!

 

[hoz53]

Like a mag base drill when a guy unplugs your cord

especially if its on the bottom of an I beam

 

[hdskip]

Having spent many years working in precision grinding the least favorite job to come up was resurfacing a magnetic chuck. We would rather have been beaten with a pretty good sized stick. Those were the days.

 

[butchlambert]

Having spent many years working in precision grinding the least favorite job to come up was resurfacing a magnetic chuck. We would rather have been beaten with a pretty good sized stick. Those were the days.

It is a real pain. When I got my surface grinder several years ago I resurfaced it. Just a real pain in the azz.

 

[liljoe]

i have to do that sometime in the near future. I brought this home a couple months ago.
Joe