Winslow Drill Grinder

Sebastien_Bolle · Mar 9, 2020

I have the chance to buy a "Winslomatic 800" drill grinder.

I've never heard of them before, does anyone know if they're any good/what the going rate for one is?

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Gordon Heaton · Mar 9, 2020

Looking here: About Us | Winslow Engineering Inc.

It seems it would only be useful if you have many hundreds of drills to grind. I suspect the 'hopper fed' version requires the drills to all be the same size too.
That link doesn't address the model 800, so is it a smaller model?

Their current line:Products | Winslow Engineering Inc.
all seems to be production equipment too.

EmGo · Mar 9, 2020

Sebastien_Bolle said:
I have the chance to buy a "Winslomatic 800" drill grinder.

I've never heard of them before, does anyone know if they're any good/what the going rate for one is?

Cool drill grinder, very accurate and capable, I believe G&L bought them so maybe still have parts and service ?

But expensive to tool and only good for very very high volumes.

thermite · Mar 9, 2020

Gordon Heaton said:
Looking here: About Us | Winslow Engineering Inc.

It seems it would only be useful if you have many hundreds of drills to grind.

Not hundreds. That wouldn't fill out a single shift.

Tens of thousands a year, year after year.

And the Model 800 (1967 until..?) was entirely custom CAM operated.

Even an Aerospace regrind shop running 3 shifts a day would want the later all-CNC models - 1990 onward.

An 800 for sale, used, might have cams for VERY FEW sizes of drill.

Aircraft rivet holes. Printed circuit boards. The sort of industrial environment that is constantly dulling the same few drills, every day, but in huge numbers per-each those few sizes.

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