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Thread: todays tools gloat
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24th Feb 2020, 11:16 PM #2341Golden Member
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25th Feb 2020, 08:27 AM #2342
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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25th Feb 2020, 09:04 PM #2343Most Valued Member
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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).
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I know, it looks pretty rough, but it works.
peter
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26th Feb 2020, 02:11 PM #2344Senior Member
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26th Feb 2020, 06:07 PM #2345
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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26th Feb 2020, 08:23 PM #2346Most Valued Member
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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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27th Feb 2020, 12:32 AM #2347Senior Member
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27th Feb 2020, 01:10 AM #2348
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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27th Feb 2020, 11:40 AM #2349Member
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Today's toy delivery
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27th Feb 2020, 08:12 PM #2350
Hi
Nice mill, you will have lots of fun with thatBest Regards:
Baron J.
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3rd Mar 2020, 07:03 PM #2351Most Valued Member
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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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3rd Mar 2020, 07:05 PM #2352Senior Member
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Nice! I swear there's never anything good like that at the local scrapyards...
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3rd Mar 2020, 07:14 PM #2353Most Valued Member
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I was very lucky - I managed to grab it before it got picked up
Steve
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3rd Mar 2020, 07:21 PM #2354
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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3rd Mar 2020, 07:39 PM #2355
Go the mighty Disco!