Recent content by Greg Barry

Like new condition Blue Point cantilever style tool box. I bought it cause it was cheap and had tools in it I wanted. I just don't need the box. Condition is truly like new. Only way to get a better one is to buy new from Snap On. I can provide as many pics as you would like. Asking $135. Would...

New bearings installed today, grinder reassembled. New Fine cut wheel, new capacitor. Spent a little time adjusting wheels to get them centered, and the dang things runs pretty smooth now. Certainly a lot quieter than it was. Gonna be a nice grinder when I finish with it. Making 4 new rubber...

kythri, yeah, I kinda think its underrated, too. One of the reasons I waited and watched and waited and watched....Didn't want some cheap offshore grinder. StillTooMany, thank you for the link, but I got a switch for it today. All the rain down here shut down all our job sites, so we all stayed...

Bearings are just standard 6204-zz. New ones from Nachi are on the way, as well as a new fine cut wheel to replace the abused, grooved one that was on it. Read up on balancing wheels and made a huge difference in the vibration by simply getting the course wheel centered on the shaft. It could...

Looks like that catalog was from 1948. I think mine was a later grinder, although the same B8S as listed in the catalog. $96 was a lot of money in 1948. Thank you!

Thank you. That's almost the exact model. Seems these Thor bench grinders aren't very common.

Hi all. Been lurking a while, and this is my first post. I've gained a lot of useful, valuable info from this site. For some time now I've wanted a decent bench grinder, but didn't want anything from offshore. Well, today was the day. FB Marketplace coughed up a Thor 8" bench grinder, and what...