Pete Deal
Titanium
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2007
- Location
- Morgantown, WV
I am thinking about buying a surface grinder. No immediate need just general purpose job shop use. I see what is described as a Doall 12x24 that is not too far away on craigslist. It looks over priced to me and no picture so who knows. At one point I started to buy a Doall, I think 16" travel machine and backed out because I had no way to handle it a the time. But is sure looked like a nice machine. The size/weight is not a big issue now. Is there any downside to buying a say 12x24 vs a smaller machine? Practically speaking it seems to me that the footprint is not all that much different between a 24" and a 12" travel machine so if a person is to have just one surface grinder a bigger one would be better (within reason) and hydraulic would be better. Is there a flaw in this reasoning?