The second machine was made by Richyoung and like so many PAC rim machines it seems to be a design that was sold by Enco, HF, and now Grizzley. It is a 612 and weighs like 500lbs. Several things made it appeal to me. It also was supposedly not used much and had a new fine pole mag chuck and its down to $600. It has a heavy duty table with plate top and square tube legs. The paint looks good and for a machine made in the late 90's it looked nice.
It was shocking how easy X moved. Turned out it was ball bearings with a quick look was full of grease. But in going through y travel I saw movement and the y part of the table had like 1/4" of back and forth play! Finally found the gib and it was like with my RF30 having a screw that engages a tapered gib. It looked like the adjustment was backed off all the way and it took I don't know how many turns to take up the play. But it did tighten up and seemed to move with the same amount of drag through the whole y travel with about .015" of play in the lead screw. The z was flaked and looked new, it also went through its travel fine although the rubber dust guard for the Z was totally gone but the lead screw didn't look full junk.
I let the grinder run for a while while I went out and got my TI and known straight edge. The spindle sounded different than the Chevalier as I would expect and the seller thought it sounded great as he's a woodworker. To me there was a little whine that came and went and as it spun down it seemed like the wheel had a little wobble and I was pretty sure the wheel was not dressed as metal machines were not the sellers forte. I was going to test for spindle play and my TI jumped like .005" and thought WTH? When I lifted the wheel there was a clunk of play and I showed the owner and said well I guess I'm outta here as I don't want to rebuild spindles. He texted me back later and said the wheel hub had come loose and he tightened it up and no more play. My problem is where do I go from here? The chuck has never been ground in as it's beyond the seller or my experience, so how would I even get a clue as to how I could even judge if this thing is worth it or not? He's asking $600 and it has nothing with it, no hub puller, no spare parts and only the wheel that's on it which who knows what it is.