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    Availability of 7" grinding wheels for a Craftsman Block Grinder. A couple of questions please...

    At 45.00 shipped for 4 Norton wheels I think I did very well It pays to be patient and every day Or two, take a look again at Facebook marketplace offer up even craigslist I don’t buy off of eBay anymore cause everybody wants too much money for their stuff on eBay
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    Availability of 7" grinding wheels for a Craftsman Block Grinder. A couple of questions please...

    The other day I found four brand new Norton 7 x 1” wheels that have the plastic inserts to make up the difference in size for the center hole,. so you know whether you have a half inch or 5/8 inch or three-quarter or even 1 inch arbor you’re OK I was only looking for two but the guy had...
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    Stanley 637A grinder or Wissota 8135 grinder

    Ok so it at 120 volts pulls 6.8 amps correct? I read that someone commented somewhere that you can judge a tool and it’s quality by how many amps it uses and the higher the amps generally the better made the tool is. I’m not sure if I have that right but that’s what I think I read You have to...
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    Stanley 637A grinder or Wissota 8135 grinder

    Yeah, another member said it looked like an older Baldor And then I saw the exact looking Stanley grinder but underneath the on-off switch it had a tag that said Morris Abrams And then there’s lots of other manufacturers that seem to be the ones that made those. there are Stanley catalogs...
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    Stanley 637A grinder or Wissota 8135 grinder

    You should see the Wissota made for wards powr Kraft grinder. Lol It’s just about as clean but I had to pay 50.00 for that one so,... lol That Stanley set me back 30.00 Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    Yeah the serial #wont work I thought most power tools had a date stamped on them somewhere
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    Would the Year of production being either one of the model or the serial numbers?
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    Stanley did have a lot of different companies make grinders for them so it could be a Baldor
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    Anyway how do you like that Stanley grinder? isn’t that thing beautiful?
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    I’m talking about new unused As I’m sure you know there are guys out there that bought wheels for the grinder and never got around to putting them on or maybe they bought a grinder that needed wheels and it also needed some work and they never got around to doing it or they couldn’t fix it...
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    Yupper And frankly I only paid $40 for the Wissotta and I paid $30 for the Stanley So I’ve got the wissotta on Facebook marketplace for 200 cause that’s a pretty appropriate price for a machine as clean as it is and so what if I have to wait a while to sell it someone says I’ll give you 150 I’m...
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    Stanley 637A bench grinder

    This is a Stanley 637A bench grinder it’s got 7”x 1” wheels with 5/8” arbor and 1/2 Hp The inner washer for the wheels are heavy cast pressed onto the shaft so they hold wheel dead on straight The pictures don’t show how clean it really is and frankly if I do really clean it it will look...
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