Ammco Safe-Arc grinders

[wkeene]

Hi everybody,
I'm looking into getting a brake shoe grinder and leaning towards an Ammco. Hoping someone can shed some light on the differences between the 2000, 880, 890, and 8000 models. From what I've gathered, the older models use a bunch of different adapters for mounting the shoes so they're at 'zero' for lack of a better word, and the newer ones have fixtures that are ready to go without such fiddling around. Or maybe I have that all wrong?

Thanks for any insights

 

[skulldrinker]

I just picked up an Ammco 880 this week. I am also wondering about the differences.

 

[theoldwizard1]

In the 70s I worked on a Sears garage. They sold 2 different sets of shoes. Retail, which could be installed directly and "over sized" that they installed in their shop and required grinding.

 

[skulldrinker]

Here are 3.

 

[Milton Shaw]

You probably cannot get OSHA and local approval to release that much asbestos dust. When I used one almost 50 years ago I would get my uniform covered enough to have to blow off. Those both are now outlawed due to safety recommended. I doubt insurance would let you use it either. They were great 50 years ago before disk brakes were standard on most vehicles.