Managed to save an old grinder from the scrapyard. This Harig Super 612 was once in the shop at the University of AK. It got tipped over, which looks to be easy to do. Top heavy, light base cabinet, and the grinder just sits in a recess in the top of the cabinet with nothing but mean old Mr. Gravity keeping it there. Anyway, they must have tipped it soon after getting it, as the ways have zero wear on them, and the original paint still looks pretty good for a 30+ year old machine. At some point, the folks at the U of A got sick of moving this thing out of their way, and were going to junk it. Fortunately it was saved by an employee, who ultimately gave it to a friend of mine. He had it for a while, and also grew tired of it being in his way, and having more projects than free time to complete them all, recently passed it on to me. Every shaft was bent in a dogleg; traverse, cross feed, and elevation, as was the dust tube that covers the elevation screw( the screw, fortunately, was safely down below the top of the column when the tip over happened. Were it bent, it would have been toast. ) The cross feed screw was also bent, but a little careful use of the shop press got it straight again. The ways, while pristine, had a few dings in them from the spill, and it took a while to carefully stone those out. The only major part that had to be purchased was the oil pump. It was from the era when they were plastic, and was cracked and done for. Also replaced the old oil lines, and the cable for the table drive. With all the major stuff out of the way it was time to see if it was a keeper. My first attempt at grinding the chuck, was also my first attempt at surface grinding....bad idea! Did some practicing, and research, and tried it again today with much better results. The table grind went well using a porous Norton 46H stone and mist coolant. Then squared up some 4140 blocks on the mill and placed five of them on the chuck and ground them with an old Camel 46J that came with the grinder, also with mist coolant. Relieved that the results confirmed it was worth the hours spent fixing it. Should be a great addition to the shop!