Craigslist Find Surface Grinder - Now The Fun Starts

[intjonmiller]

Mine holds my dial indicators and setup blocks.

If I had a mill I'm sure I would get more use out of the grinder.

 

[brino]

Okay but what do you use these for?

lemme see, I would like to:
-grind some HSS lathe bits into various square and hex sizes (with relief) for a rotary broach,
-put a beautiful finish on some lathe tool holders,
-be able to produce my own rectangular gauge blocks to what ever precision dimension I want,

I'm sure there are more...the first one is just what I was dreaming about today on my drive to work.

-brino

 

[intjonmiller]

I'm sure there are more...the first one is just what I was dreaming about today on my drive to work.

-brino

Your commute sounds a lot like mine.

I would love to use mine as an actual tool-and-cutter grinder. At this point it's just an excessively large surface grinder that rarely gets turned on. (Maybe 4x since I got it almost a year ago.) The tooling for that is, at this point, much lower priority than the tooling for the lathe and the mill that costs me an hour drive each way to go use.