Sell me on a 2x72

Wow what a great amount of input. I'll add another puzzle piece. A friend of mine will sell me a 110v vfd for really cheap. Now that thats an option....idk what I'm going to do. Seems alot of people lean toward the Northridge and Reeder so I'm going to do some deeper research and probably go with one of those 2. I do like the appeal of the Ameribrade tho
 
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razor-edge-knives said:
I'd get a Northridge personally... But they are struggling with production demands. Had a great buddy reach out to them about 10 weeks ago on the mod-e and they said they should have some ready in 6 weeks.
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When I say Northridge, it's not the Mod E
It's the expensive one.
 
12345678910 said:
When I say Northridge, it's not the Mod E
It's the expensive one.
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I know I was more pointing out how their manufacturing is behind. It follows if they are behind in the cheap one they are probably behind in their more expensive model too.
 
I have requirements for any grinder i would look at. First, direct drive with variable speed. Second, ratcheting tension. Third, contact wheels on the platen. Only a few grinders fit these requirements. TW90, Northridge and Burr King. The Burr King is belt drive, but the front wheel drive system is super smooth. The Northridge doesnt have contact wheels on the platen but they can be easily added.
 
A friend of mine has it and agreed to sell it to me. I haven't made the purchase yet, seeing as I dont know which way I'm going to go.
 
I'm pretty sold on the northridge standard mod 2 package. I just can't see spending the extra 1000 bucks for the pro package.
 
A few years back I upgraded and was between the Northridge and the Pheer (bought the 220v Kbac27 and a motor seperate). I tried quite a few ways to even get a hold of Northridge and couldn't. Finally got a reply in an e-mail about a week after I sent it without apparently reading the email as the answer was in direct contrast to the question I asked. I got a hold of Pheer late at night and he went over everything that I would need to order taking into account what I already had. I decided to go with Pheer. Much better customer service to me (I've read other people have had great experiences, but it was pretty disappointing to me as that was the machine I really wanted) with Pheer. I'm sure tilting would be handy and I could find a use for it, but I haven't felt the need for it. Also when Pheer shipped me the frame and drive wheel he included wiring instructions for a motor and KBAC that he didn't need to as I didn't buy them from him.
 
And now I'm torn and leaning towards the ameribrade. Has anyone had any experience with these guys?
 
I don't think you could go wrong with any of the ones that have been mentioned. I have the Reeder and love it, and the father and son team who run the company are really nice people.
 
O'Neil said:
And now I'm torn and leaning towards the ameribrade. Has anyone had any experience with these guys?
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I have one and it’s pretty nice. I can only compare it to a Grizzly. The owners are very easy to contact. It is way nicer than a Grizzly and has more features than I know how to use (I’m new to making stuff like this).
 
Are all these tooling arms interchangable sizewise? Like if I already have a flat platen with a small contact wheel, small wheel attachment and a 10" serrated contact wheel all on tooling arms for my old KMG will they direct fit to a chassis on, say, a Northridge? I assume these are standard and having to pay an insane amount to buy all that for a new machine would be crazy.
 
David Schott said:
Are all these tooling arms interchangable sizewise? Like if I already have a flat platen with a small contact wheel, small wheel attachment and a 10" serrated contact wheel all on tooling arms for my old KMG will they direct fit to a chassis on, say, a Northridge? I assume these are standard and having to pay an insane amount to buy all that for a new machine would be crazy.
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The tool arms will fit. You MIGHT have to space the wheel from the tool arm a little differently, but then again, the tracking wheel will likely take up any discrepancy.
 
David Schott said:
Are all these tooling arms interchangable sizewise? Like if I already have a flat platen with a small contact wheel, small wheel attachment and a 10" serrated contact wheel all on tooling arms for my old KMG will they direct fit to a chassis on, say, a Northridge? I assume these are standard and having to pay an insane amount to buy all that for a new machine would be crazy.
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Most grinders use 1.5" square tooling arms. I believe the TW-90 uses 1.25" square bar. A 6' piece of 1.5" aluminum square bar is about $46 at xometry, they run free shipping specials every now and then. You can make three tool arms from that, so it is not really very expensive to make new ones if you get a grinder with a different tool arm slot size.
 
Hubert S. said:
Most grinders use 1.5" square tooling arms. I believe the TW-90 uses 1.25" square bar. A 6' piece of 1.5" aluminum square bar is about $46 at xometry, they run free shipping specials every now and then. You can make three tool arms from that, so it is not really very expensive to make new ones if you get a grinder with a different tool arm slot size.
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What Hubert said. I bought an 8" wheel, flat platen (a separate 2" contact wheel to put on the top roller) and a small wheel attachment and some 1.5" square tubing from the local metal supplier. I think a 6' section cost me like $10-15 and made the arms myself. Like said above, you may need to adjust spacing, but shouldn't be very hard to do.
 
Went with north ridge tool. Just picked it up today!! George at NRT is great to deal with and just chit chat. Thanks guys for all the info.

Also, I ordered a 10" wheel and a 2 wheel attachment from ameribrade.
 
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