Hello! I'm new here bbut something much more important needs reporting first- I just bought my first CM block grinder. $100 on ebay.
It has not delivered yet, this is from the listing. It's a 397.19340/ 5.1 amp/1/2HP. You guys might laugh but this was a good price atleast on ebay! I could not get one locally even after years of looking (New Orleans is a dirth of engineering). The other 1/2 HP on epay was selling for over $400.
I sure hope this is a "real ': block. It has the 397. so I figured I was safe and the placard also says sealed ball bearings.
This looks to have been lightly used in the xtreme. I bought it from a woman who sells chachki decorations and had it listed as a bench grinder for 129. I offered 100 and she immediately accepted. I dont think she knew what it was. Just thought it was a grinder.
So did I do good? - I cant wait to turn it on. I have 4 grinders, a Sears 1940's Thermotron dual shaft AC motor I use as a buffer, a belt drive unit I restored with a pulley drive I use for scotchbright and alum/brass, a small 5" unit I love that I bolted right beside drill press for deburring and lastly a new Ryobi 8" that works fine.
About me I grew up in my fathers machine shop, a cool place that only made his patented pin insertion machines. He was kind of overbearing and Germanic about that stuff and I just worked their as a kid. As soon as he died I got with this old foreman Paul Erskine and started designing camera accessories (i am a tv/movie cameraman). Then he died and I have gradually assembled a shop at my house to built prototypes on. I repair a certain kind of Sony design defect for camera guys all over the world but that camera is superceded and I'm on the jump to make a new product to keep that old money rolling in!
Seneca Falls 9" lathe (my grandads, MIT engineer, his "home lathe" in mint condition
Rockwell 21-100 mill Bought last year, I have it in nearly perfect condition
Delta Rockwell geared Band saw $50 local find
Couple of decent Drill Presses
4" Wilton bullet vise (for some reason I love this thing)
Alot of grinders and belt sanders and a lot of tooling
Man I wish this would get here. Everything I see is starting to look like a Craftsman bloack grinder! ;-)
Howdy doo
Caleb Crosby
New Orleans
It has not delivered yet, this is from the listing. It's a 397.19340/ 5.1 amp/1/2HP. You guys might laugh but this was a good price atleast on ebay! I could not get one locally even after years of looking (New Orleans is a dirth of engineering). The other 1/2 HP on epay was selling for over $400.
I sure hope this is a "real ': block. It has the 397. so I figured I was safe and the placard also says sealed ball bearings.
This looks to have been lightly used in the xtreme. I bought it from a woman who sells chachki decorations and had it listed as a bench grinder for 129. I offered 100 and she immediately accepted. I dont think she knew what it was. Just thought it was a grinder.
So did I do good? - I cant wait to turn it on. I have 4 grinders, a Sears 1940's Thermotron dual shaft AC motor I use as a buffer, a belt drive unit I restored with a pulley drive I use for scotchbright and alum/brass, a small 5" unit I love that I bolted right beside drill press for deburring and lastly a new Ryobi 8" that works fine.
About me I grew up in my fathers machine shop, a cool place that only made his patented pin insertion machines. He was kind of overbearing and Germanic about that stuff and I just worked their as a kid. As soon as he died I got with this old foreman Paul Erskine and started designing camera accessories (i am a tv/movie cameraman). Then he died and I have gradually assembled a shop at my house to built prototypes on. I repair a certain kind of Sony design defect for camera guys all over the world but that camera is superceded and I'm on the jump to make a new product to keep that old money rolling in!
Seneca Falls 9" lathe (my grandads, MIT engineer, his "home lathe" in mint condition
Rockwell 21-100 mill Bought last year, I have it in nearly perfect condition
Delta Rockwell geared Band saw $50 local find
Couple of decent Drill Presses
4" Wilton bullet vise (for some reason I love this thing)
Alot of grinders and belt sanders and a lot of tooling
Man I wish this would get here. Everything I see is starting to look like a Craftsman bloack grinder! ;-)
Howdy doo
Caleb Crosby
New Orleans
