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  1. #2341
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    Quote Originally Posted by J.C. View Post
    They're pretty bad at the moment aren't they! I am having to hide in the workshop with the door closed and hope they don't find their way in under the eaves...
    Hexham Greys perchance? They wear striped football socks if I recall correctly.

    Bill

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    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    Would not surprise me if they were related to GMF. The base and tool rests look identical to a similar size and vintage GMF.
    Nice looking old thing. I think they had some at Vales Pt Power station when I was workign there back in the day.
    peter
    It would not surprise me either. Another tell tale would be the smoothness of how it runs and the length of time it took to run down once switched off.

    The GMF's were well known for it.

    The tool rests and their mountings always impressed me as strong and simple but very easy to adjust, something I could not say about many of the others.

    Grahame

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    GMF pics.

    Just took a couple pics of my old GMF. I got it around 1976. When I got it it didnt have any guard end covers. Put new bearings in then and haven't done anything else except fit the guard end covers. Which are off a different grinder. My late uncle used to go to auction sales and these came with some other stuff he bought once.
    It looks pretty much the same now as when I got it. Interestingly the name plate , although very hard to read, has the temp info as being 50Deg C (I only just noticed that tonight).

    gmf grinder 001.jpggmf grinder 002.jpggmf grinder 003.jpg

    I know, it looks pretty rough, but it works.

    peter

  4. #2344
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    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    GMF pics.

    Just took a couple pics of my old GMF. I got it around 1976. When I got it it didnt have any guard end covers. Put new bearings in then and haven't done anything else except fit the guard end covers. Which are off a different grinder. My late uncle used to go to auction sales and these came with some other stuff he bought once.
    It looks pretty much the same now as when I got it. Interestingly the name plate , although very hard to read, has the temp info as being 50Deg C (I only just noticed that tonight).

    gmf grinder 001.jpggmf grinder 002.jpggmf grinder 003.jpg

    I know, it looks pretty rough, but it works.

    peter
    That is a nice GMF!

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    Ok! 44 years plus on the units are still running like tops. I can't find anyone up my way silly enough to part with one.

    They truly are great units.

    Grahame

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    After seeing pictures of others older grinders all prettied up, I almost felt ashamed to post those pics. I might (only might) look at tarting it up later in the year.
    peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    After seeing pictures of others older grinders all prettied up, I almost felt ashamed to post those pics. I might (only might) look at tarting it up later in the year.
    peter
    I have felt the same way at times. Then I remember there is a lot of other tools that need work before the GMF gets a paint job.
    Unless of cause the bearings give out.

    Tony

  8. #2348
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    Hi Guys,

    This is a link to a scrap yard salvage that I did way back in 2014 !

    https://metalworkforums.com/f65/t187...+Refurbishment

    I can hardly believe that it was so long ago.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Last edited by TheApprentice; 28th Feb 2020 at 08:03 AM. Reason: added photo

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    Hi

    Nice mill, you will have lots of fun with that
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Not a gloat as such, more a celebration of saving it from the fiery furnace.
    This lovely little 16” chuck mumbled something about always wanting to be a rotary table when it grew up. I couldn’t help but bring it home.



    Steve

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    Nice! I swear there's never anything good like that at the local scrapyards...

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    I was very lucky - I managed to grab it before it got picked up

    Steve

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    Hi Steve, Guys,

    Some time ago I wrote that I had been to a place where whole skips full of chucks, jaws and horizontal milling cutters had been disposed off for scrap. Mostly second hand but lots of new stuff still in wax was in there as well.

    The space that was occupied by those skips, now has crates of Chinese machinery and tools stacked in there.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Go the mighty Disco!

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