Oddball grinder ad

metlmunchr · Aug 3, 2010

About a month ago I saw an ad for a grinder near Charlotte, NC. It was a surface grinder with travels of 8" x 120", or something near that. Wouldn't have thought much about it, but the ad said it was made by Moore Special Tool Co which would be the jig bore and jig grinder people. Just curious if anyone knows of Moore making surface grinders. With 10 ft of travel, it sure seemed like a far stretch for someone who makes the sort of things Moore is known for.

Mebfab · Aug 3, 2010

Somewhere on here we talked about it.

The consensus was it was a moore dressing attachment.

Now why it was a very narrow vs very long grinder?

Davis In SC · Aug 3, 2010

Yes, Moore made some dressers. that mounted on the spindle housing, like the Engis ones did, and had a pantograph to trace user-supplied templates (10 to 1, IIRC) There was also a crush dress feature on some. I think it was called "Panto-Crush"
Years ago, I bought one of the dressers at a dealer. A friend in the broach business liked it better than I did, and was pleased to buy it. I was told that the dressers cost over 20K, new..

99.99% chance Moore did not make the grinder, though.

mister honey · Aug 4, 2010

The 8" x 120" grinder may have been a broach grinder.

The few that I have seen have minimal cross travel combined with a long stroke.

Mike

metlmunchr · Aug 4, 2010

Davis In SC said:
99.99% chance Moore did not make the grinder, though.

My thought too Mark. I assumed the seller saw something on the machine that said Moore and figured they made the whole thing. Was just curious if some of the brass at Moore showed up one day and decided to make something unlike anything they'd ever made before, and managed to produce one of 'em before the guys with the straightjackets showed up at the executive offices

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