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Recent content by JohnH

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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    The balls and cages were removed, wood placed onto the ways and the table were strapped down for transport. Unfortunately, sometime in the past it looks like the first one I’ve started cleaning wasn’t done this way. I can see round dimples in the flat way of the table where the balls have (I...
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    The two grinders have finally arrived. Now for some deep cleaning and inspection.
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Ah ha, looks like I am missing the felts. That makes more sense now for oil.
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Does the workhead retain the oil? I was thinking oil, but there are no seals and I was thinking the oil would just leak out. Maybe that is a good thing to flush the grinding dust out?
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Hi Brent, Still a couple of weeks before I get the Cincinnati delivered, but I did grab all the loose accessories and brought them home. The work head was in pretty bad shape and wasn’t rotating very well. I stripped it down enough to give it clean and noticed there wasn’t any grease in the...
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Thanks Brent, the easiest suitable motor to source here is a 3 phase. All the single phase ones that I could find are only 1400 rpm unless I go 2HP or bigger. We have a very small market in Australia so our choices are always limited.
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    I think TonyK was after the belt. My motor is hard wired 400/440 volt in star configuration. It’s cheaper to buy a new motor than to get a motor rewinder to chase the windings to get 240v delta.
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Hi Brent, I won’t have the grinder in my possession for a few more weeks. My first priority will be to strip the whole machine down and inspect all the components. It is currently wired for 3 Phase but I only have single phase 240v so I will be re wiring the machine to run off a VFD. This will...
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    Hello from Down Under

    I’m up in Queensland
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    Cincinnati No 2 Cutter Grinder Restoration

    Hi Brent, it appears a lot of your photos are not displaying, do you still have them to update the thread?
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    Hello from Down Under

    Hi All, Hobby machinist from Australia. I joined up after finding a thread on restoring a Cincinnati Tool & Cutter grinder here. I’m about to undertake the same thing.
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