Hi fellas, I‘ve been working on this old grinder when time is available, so far a stand has been built for it, the motors and switches were rewired and it has been discovered that the motor that runs the head stock had a worn out bushing and the shaft was also worn pretty badly. My wife ran the mig welder while I turned the armature with a RT. Probably not the best idea we ever came up with, but we got the job done. I rgh turned it straitened it on the arbor press and turned it to 1/16” over original size. Then reamed the bushing to .001 over shaft Dia. And I’m happy to say that the head stock works very smoothly.
The glass cylinder of the grinder spindle oiler is cracked in 3 or more places , so one has been ordered from McMaster Carr. I hope it will fit, it’s a little longer than the original. I’m not sure how this oiler is supposed to work, if you look at the shape of the housing it is larger Dia. In the middle than it is at the ends. If you look down into the hole where the oiler fits you can see that the oil will drip on the grinder shaft, I guess the spinning shaft will throw oil all over the inside of the housing and some of it will run down the inside contour to the bearings at each end. I wonder how fast you should set it to drip.
I also took the bed off and noticed it had been lubed with grease which became kinda hard over time so it has been cleaned up and an adapter is being made for an oil can. I'm hope to be able to pump way oil into the grease zerts. Need to make a handle for the bed feed wheel and a stop, then I think I'm ready to try to put this old machine to use.