This little beauty will arrive thursday or friday. it's a covel model 15 surface grinder. when i found this thing mariah
advised against it. on her advice i passed on it. the owner later contacted me and for the cost of shipping it's mine.
by its' serial number and from chatter on practical machinst it looks to be a 1945+-
vintage. it has sealed bearings on the spindle and the gits oilers are not present.
other than i know nothing about its condition, if it is serviceable, if it will kill me,
i find out when it gets here. it could be 900 pounds of scrap.
i did manage to pick up two 12' sections of 1.062" and 1.75" 4140 round bar which
can be seen cut to 4' lengths and strapped to the pallet. some guy on ebay was
selling them for $40 and $16 respectively, couldn't pass that up.
the first thing i am going to do is clean it up and indicate the run out. these things
had the ways chrome plated after being flaked. i have a spare 3 phase 1.5 hp motor
here some where if the existing motor tests bad.
cool if it doesn't kill me!
advised against it. on her advice i passed on it. the owner later contacted me and for the cost of shipping it's mine.
by its' serial number and from chatter on practical machinst it looks to be a 1945+-
vintage. it has sealed bearings on the spindle and the gits oilers are not present.
other than i know nothing about its condition, if it is serviceable, if it will kill me,
i find out when it gets here. it could be 900 pounds of scrap.
i did manage to pick up two 12' sections of 1.062" and 1.75" 4140 round bar which
can be seen cut to 4' lengths and strapped to the pallet. some guy on ebay was
selling them for $40 and $16 respectively, couldn't pass that up.
the first thing i am going to do is clean it up and indicate the run out. these things
had the ways chrome plated after being flaked. i have a spare 3 phase 1.5 hp motor
here some where if the existing motor tests bad.
cool if it doesn't kill me!