Greg Menke
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Saw this on google+ These things are usually blue I suppose..but... yikes!
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Green grinder for sale
- Thread starter Greg Menke
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Ray Behner
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- Brunswick Oh USA
Which "green" button do I push?
conant
Stainless
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One of the machine tools used to build the Yellow Submarine.
Reminds of a shop I was hired in the early 70s. They had a Cincinnati mill that same green. An orange Axelson lathe and a radial drill painted purple.
The shop was in logging country Oregon of all places. I never could figure out what reasoning was behind the paint scheme other than it was something no one would forget.
Reminds of a shop I was hired in the early 70s. They had a Cincinnati mill that same green. An orange Axelson lathe and a radial drill painted purple.
The shop was in logging country Oregon of all places. I never could figure out what reasoning was behind the paint scheme other than it was something no one would forget.
ernieflash
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looks like it goes with those plastic army men you know the ones in all diferent positions of battle !!!!
Ziggy2
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Well, they didn't waste any money on masking tape. Since everything is Green, they must have rebuilt the whole grinder.
I wonder how they expect this to ever be usable without a major effort in paint removal?
I wonder how they expect this to ever be usable without a major effort in paint removal?
Joe Michaels
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Rebuild by Earl Scheib, for those of us old enough to remember the ads. Scheib was a cutrate chain of auto body/auto painting shops. "Any Car, Any Color, $39.95, coast-to-coast". With Earl Scheib,everything got painted: trim, tires, door handles... everything but the windshield, side windows and headlight got hit with paint. That grinder got an Earl Scheib rebuild. I think Scheib gave way to Maaco. I am surprised the grinder did not get a set of California flames in the paint job to really make it a more complete rebuild and a much finer machine tool.
Monarchist
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Ads, Hell. Several of my crowd got the actual paint jobs. More of us yet may have inherited them with used cars
Weren't all that bad if one either masked, ELSE removed (bumpers, trim, door handles) and masked the openings, did yer own 'detailing' before and after.
Funniest one was one of the lads who had not yet found a replacement for a quarter vent window and forgotten to cover the opening.. Nice 'wedge' patterns of paint across interior driver's side 'stuff' didn't come off of everything it hit with equal ease. Much of it just remained there.
This POS doesn't even look sprayed. Looks almost as if it were DIPPED!
Or even 'photoshopped'.
Bill
SouthBendModel34
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It's not such a bad color !
I don't think that is a bad color for a machine tool if the operator is named Kermit.
But, by golly ! They've even painted the drive belt !
It is now ready to be stored outdoors, without major rust, for a short time......think of how much better off some of the stored-outdoors rust-bucket machine tools we've discussed would have been if someone had spritzed them with paint like this !
What is the machine in the left background ?
JRR
I don't think that is a bad color for a machine tool if the operator is named Kermit.
But, by golly ! They've even painted the drive belt !
It is now ready to be stored outdoors, without major rust, for a short time......think of how much better off some of the stored-outdoors rust-bucket machine tools we've discussed would have been if someone had spritzed them with paint like this !
What is the machine in the left background ?
JRR
wawoodman
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If it moves, salute it. If it stands still, paint it.
. . . and the tailstock taper! "Removed from R&D laboratory in pristine condition"
LOL, thanks for the laugh Greg.
Monarchist
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And then.. salute it.
Just do not use your fingers all at once.
'Green' efficiency, y'see...
L Vanice
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Rats! In my innocence, I clicked this thread to see if I could buy another Green Instrument Co. model 208 engraving machine cutter grinder. They are very nice little machines and are painted black wrinkle.
Larry
Larry
ernieflash
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new meaning to green wheel
Monarchist
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"Innocence?" At YOUR age and life experience?
"Eternal optimism" maybe. But surely not "innocence".
dkmc
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If Liberace had a machine shop.....
Ray Behner
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Joe,
Seem to remember 29.95 in the late 50's early 60's. That fresh new paint job had such a nice abrasive feel to it.
Seem to remember 29.95 in the late 50's early 60's. That fresh new paint job had such a nice abrasive feel to it.
Zahnrad Kopf
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Monarchist
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He may have had.
Colours quite aside, doubt you would want to become familiar with his idea of 'tooling' though.
it would have had a lot more sequins if Liberace owned it.
At least you won't have a guy say he couldn't find the piece of equipment. "Use the green one". Maybe thats the reasoning for odd colors, easy identification by people who don't know what they are. I was using that there green thing and it quit working.
At least you won't have a guy say he couldn't find the piece of equipment. "Use the green one". Maybe thats the reasoning for odd colors, easy identification by people who don't know what they are. I was using that there green thing and it quit working.
kitno455
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they even painted the grinding wheel.
allan
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