Brian@VersaMil
Stainless
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2001
- Location
- Gaston, Oregon USA
Sometimes I can't help myself, and I buy machine tools just because i suspect they MIGHT be pretty nice. I bought a 1970 Norton 10 by 24 universal cylindrical grinder yesterday from Goverment liquidation. Now the machines they had yesterday in Concord California WERE NOT the typical rusty machines left outside for two years. They had a batch of really nice looking machines, being sold right out of a Navy facility.
I have several cylindrical grinders already, but this grinder looks really clean, which for a goverment grinder is a rarity. Anyone use Norton grinders? I'm pretty enamored with Jones and Shipman grinders, and actually was looking to buy a small one, to be set up for a certain batch of parts I run. But this Norton just looked too good to walk away from. Any comments on just the general line of Norton grinders? Although I have 35 grinders, this is the first Norton that's sneaking into my shop.
Anyone know when Norton stopped making grinders? Any thoughts on quality say compared to the Cincinnati or Landis cylindrical grinders. I'm sorely tempted to buy a Landis 1R just to see what they're like too. I have a large Cincinnati 18 x 72 inch grinder for larger parts, but the bulk of what I grind is perfectly at home on a small grinder. I machine quite a few tapers, and it's easier to just leave a machine set up for my common parts, rather than continually have to measure and adjust to get it right. This particular grinder only has a ten inch wheel, where most of my other grinders use 12 inch and 14 inch wheels. It has a swing down ID, not that I need to do ID work on it, but a swing down with it's own dedicated motor, beats the Jones and Shipman swing around ID spindle, driven off the same motor as is used for the OD wheel. I hate having to set up the J&S between OD and ID.
I have several cylindrical grinders already, but this grinder looks really clean, which for a goverment grinder is a rarity. Anyone use Norton grinders? I'm pretty enamored with Jones and Shipman grinders, and actually was looking to buy a small one, to be set up for a certain batch of parts I run. But this Norton just looked too good to walk away from. Any comments on just the general line of Norton grinders? Although I have 35 grinders, this is the first Norton that's sneaking into my shop.
Anyone know when Norton stopped making grinders? Any thoughts on quality say compared to the Cincinnati or Landis cylindrical grinders. I'm sorely tempted to buy a Landis 1R just to see what they're like too. I have a large Cincinnati 18 x 72 inch grinder for larger parts, but the bulk of what I grind is perfectly at home on a small grinder. I machine quite a few tapers, and it's easier to just leave a machine set up for my common parts, rather than continually have to measure and adjust to get it right. This particular grinder only has a ten inch wheel, where most of my other grinders use 12 inch and 14 inch wheels. It has a swing down ID, not that I need to do ID work on it, but a swing down with it's own dedicated motor, beats the Jones and Shipman swing around ID spindle, driven off the same motor as is used for the OD wheel. I hate having to set up the J&S between OD and ID.