My Sunday adventure

[JTknives]

So Sunday I rounded up a buddy and hitched up the trailer and drove to Idaho. It was time to pick up my 3B surface grinder. Everything went smooth and easier then any one expected. I used a tilt deck trailer and a Electric wench. Hooked the wench to the handle of the pallet jack and hit the go button. The wench turned the grinder 90° and up the trailer it went. And it was self guiding right to the center. We strapped it down and where about to head out but took a look at all the other stuff he had. The wife does not send me with cash to these kind of places becaus she knows what I will do if she is not around to monitor me lol. So we where looking around at all the mills, lathes and piles of tooling. He took out to his shed and was showin* us things like motorcycles and rototillers. He pointed at the floor under a pile of junk and said, do you need a tumbler. A tumbler you say, let’s see it. He pulled it out and I instantly knew I must have it. I say could be (as I’m fighting back my excitement). How much I ask, we’ll how about $60. I said what’s the I take it right now cash price. He said I don’t know how about $40. Hum I said as I looked it over. He asked how much cash do you got? I said I got zero cash, you know my wife handles that part. He laughed and said hell just take it, I know you will be back. I shook his hand and said deal. We loaded up and befor leaving he handed me a really nice fly cutter and some carbide and HSS bits. He said here have this as well, I know you where eyeballing them last time. His dad use to manufacture these fly cutters in this shop way back in the day and he suplyed company’s like SPI with all their fly cutters thy sold. I was tickled pink and told him I would be back to buy an entire set. Still has quite a bit of them left. So I thanked him again and off we went. I got home and unloaded the grinder and goodies, and moved the grinder into its home.

So in general it was a real great day. I will not post here what I discovered when I took apart the grinder, I will save that for another thread. It’s not good but could have been much worse.

It unloaded even smoother

As you can see I got a shit ton of wheels, probably going to convert to belt. This will be explained in the next thread why. And the tumbler is rubber lined and full of ceremic media.
SCORE

I will snap a pic of the fly cutter when I head out to the shop.

 

[Tom Lewis]

Congratulations! Thanks for the pictures. Very nice shop looks like you have plenty of room.

 

[Ken H>]

You sure hit the Mother Lode on that trip! Didn't you make one of the surface grinder attachments for your 2X72? Do you think the big SG will be more accurate with belts than the SGA (if you made one). I KNOW a real SG is MUCH more accurate than the SGA we've built with stones. A lifetime ago (almost 50 yrs!) when I worked with SG like you've got a tenth was nothing. Well, maybe a tenth was something that took real care, but was very obtainable.

YOU DID GOOD!!

 

[jdm61]

Score!!!!!! I hope you paid less than what some of the bandits on EvilBay are asking for pretty much any surface grider these days.

 

[JTknives]

I got it for $500

 

[jdm61]

That's what they used to sell for, but for a few years, we had the benefit of gear being sold out of shops that had gone under after the crash. The prices for even the most beat up Rigid pipe threader are even crazier. Forget about old power hammers!!!!

I got it for $500

 

[Lieblad]

Thats a great tumbler. Had that same for a few years until I built a vibratory.
For stuff we tumble, vibrator albeit noiser, can run wet without leaking, is faster to load, unload & check progress on.

 

[Bigfattyt]

Cool!!