10-01-2012, 06:06 PM
She loved it when I brought to her today and spent some time talking with her about various things. She was there outside her shop tinkering with suspension settings on her new Motobecane mountain bike, I was out riding my "adventure bike" (motorcycle.)
The main reason for finishing with a surface grinder is that my dad's Bridgeport is in sad shape from years of neglect before he got it. Add to that a crappy made-in-China poor copy of a Kurt vise. Betweeen the two, I couldn't hold .002" parallel on the holder so his (now) $1200 surface grinder saves the day and gets it done! I say $1200 because while we got it for the cost of renting a lift gate truck ($271), I've added the $650 coolant/dust collector unit, a dozen more wheel adapters and wheels for them, magnetic parallels, radius dresser, diamond dressing nibs and other bits & bobs.
We love having it for more than just correcting out-of-square mlling operations. There's no more accurate and easy way to grind HSS and solid carbide lathe tools, and it's nice to know just how good your milling is or isn't.
The main reason for finishing with a surface grinder is that my dad's Bridgeport is in sad shape from years of neglect before he got it. Add to that a crappy made-in-China poor copy of a Kurt vise. Betweeen the two, I couldn't hold .002" parallel on the holder so his (now) $1200 surface grinder saves the day and gets it done! I say $1200 because while we got it for the cost of renting a lift gate truck ($271), I've added the $650 coolant/dust collector unit, a dozen more wheel adapters and wheels for them, magnetic parallels, radius dresser, diamond dressing nibs and other bits & bobs.
We love having it for more than just correcting out-of-square mlling operations. There's no more accurate and easy way to grind HSS and solid carbide lathe tools, and it's nice to know just how good your milling is or isn't.