Pheer 454 grinder Anyone using one?

I forgot to mention we have had a Coote for about 8-9 years..Has the 9" disc and the small wheel attachment on it.glass platen.Its been a champ, used almost every single day of those 8-9 years..its been used a lot for general fab work and hog grinding of forged stuff..
We built a sliding motor mount for ours that way we got four true speeds with one step wheel on the motor and a 3 3/4" on the grinder. The only fault I ever had to the coote was the two wheel design, not so much a fault really but not optimal for blade grinding..
Never will get rid of it though..
 
heres that mount...
..I made a sliding motor mount so we could have 4 speeds..The step pulley is 4"-3 1/2"-2 1/2"-2"..The pulley on the grinder is 4".The motor is 1725rpm's, 1 1/2 H.P.This gives us..
1725 RPM's
1509 RPM's
1078 RPM's
862 RPM's
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Heres the bracket before mounting and clean-up.
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I had a Pheer 454 for a while, and it was quite a solid machine. Tracked well with no vibration and the VFD setup worked fine. I sold it down the road to finance a metal lathe, but I'd recommend it to anyone interested in them.
I did a review of it a while back, on this forum. A search would probably find it.
 
Fish30114 said:
No Rhino, the Northridge is a great piece of kit. They really approach things with a 'spare no expense' attitude, and built several pieces in-house cause there wasn't a high quality one available in the marketplace!
The other beast you should take a look at Lcoop is the AMK: http://amktactical.com/epages/3c926...26a50-9aba-43a5-9571-098ee03f1288/Products/33 I've got one, and Allen will rig it out however you want, for example I had a 3hp Leeson motor and a 12" contact wheel put on mine along with a KBAC nema IV enclosure for my VFD drive. You don't have to have different tool arms with different fixtures with the AMK--you just pull a pin and pivot the arm around and you go from the flat platen to the contact wheel. For other tooling, i.e. a small wheel attachment you just pull a couple bolts and slide the flat platen off, and bolt in the small wheel attachment. The AMK also has a plate that flips the grinder horizontal---the other grinder I am really impressed with is the Northridge--my second grinder will be one of them. They are really just getting rolling, and it'll be prolly like another 6-8 weeks before they have all the options set to ship out with their grinders, i.e. the horizontal flipping plate, the small wheel attachment, complete motor control systems. If you are trying to focus on value the AMK is the way to go--to get supreme quality you should hang out til the Northridge has what you want. I feel that the quality of the Northridge is gonna equal the TW-90 and the Hardcore Maximizer. To the OP the pheer is a good value piece, but I think the AMK beats it. The Esteem is one I like as well, bit I would also choose the AMK over an Esteem.


Good luck whichever way you go--let us know what you go with and may it help you create some knives you'll love!!
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I think a few of us are getting mixed signals this evening.;) .. LOL

I was responding to the comment about the machine that is being sent to Darrin Sanders from China, That one is a 2 x 48" .. The AMK stuff looks good!:thumbup:

Kentucky said:
heres that mount...
..I made a sliding motor mount so we could have 4 speeds..The step pulley is 4"-3 1/2"-2 1/2"-2"..The pulley on the grinder is 4".The motor is 1725rpm's, 1 1/2 H.P.This gives us..
1725 RPM's
1509 RPM's
1078 RPM's
862 RPM's
newpics538.jpg

Heres the bracket before mounting and clean-up.
newpics539.jpg
Click to expand...

Very cool,
I've had my Coote for about 20 years now and considering the limitations its a rock solid machine, I'll never part with it and Norman Coote is a great man to work with. About two years ago I mounted my Coote on a dolly cart along with a 1 HP and a variable control.
I use it on the tailgate of my truck for sharpening and knife making demo type stuff. www,cootebeltgrinder.com
 
yea, id never get rid of our Coote..Just to solid and reliable..Good machine to have regardless of its minor limitations.
 
I didn't mean to derail OP thread. I've researched and found nothing that didn't say Pheer wasn't a great grinder. In fact I'm not even sure the 427 with a flat platten isn't exactly what I need and desire. It's just human nature to wonder what if! I have to yet to find a single post that says customer service sucks on PHEER. That says a lot to me! I'm in no immediate hurry and just playing the field. But I dont' think you would go wrong with Pheer! I just haven't pulled the trigger yet!
 
Beanman Getting an 8" wheel with a Platen and 1.5hp motor VFD etc, already have a small wheel attachment from my old KMG will use that for a while
Also found just using some 1.5" sq heavy duty square steel tubing works just fine for tooling arms
BTW Had my KMG for around 16yrs never any bearing problems... started to wear out the face of the Idler wheel a bit that's all
 
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Thought I'd already made my mind up to get a Coote grinder, but after looking at the Pheer 454 I think I'm going to pull the trigger on that one instead. I'm not really in any hurry at this point as I won't be able to set up my knife shop for about another 6 weeks. Hopefully Northridge will have better information on their website before then because I'd really like to compare apples to apples pricing against the Pheer. They both look like pretty good machines to me, and the best bang for the buck.
 
Not to hijack but I've got a 454 coming this week. Got a 1.5 Hp motor with 220v in the shop. But I've got a line on a 2 hp motor. Worth the upgrade or any real difference with a 2hp vs 1.5hp. Vfd can handle both, up to 3hp.
 
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