Cheap Universal Tool & Cutter Grinder

This was discussed just before Xmas on the homeworkshop bbs:

This was discussed just before Xmas on the homeworkshop bbs:

Thanks for that link, I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't check on there. "Bottom line" seems to be avoid them. IanC.

Twas I what wrote as 'Aviemoron'. I should add that YahooGroups has a trio as Quorn_owners which is not confined to those who have more balls than most. Whilst I have a Quorn, I also have a Clarkson minus pedestal to squeeze in to my small workshop- and really the Quorn is redundant.

Sometime back I wrote and reflected that a Clarkson can be up and running for less than the price of the imported contraption and the cost of the castings of such as the Quorn, Kennet and Stent. It is a subject which is really too big to write a 3 line answer!

Twas I what wrote as 'Aviemoron'. I should add that YahooGroups has a trio as Quorn_owners which is not confined to those who have more balls than most. Whilst I have a Quorn, I also have a Clarkson minus pedestal to squeeze in to my small workshop- and really the Quorn is redundant.

Sometime back I wrote and reflected that a Clarkson can be up and running for less than the price of the imported contraption and the cost of the castings of such as the Quorn, Kennet and Stent. It is a subject which is really too big to write a 3 line answer!

Yep ~ broadly agree as I've refurbished and installed a Clarkson Mk 1 at our model engineering society w/shop. Distance & general buggeration in getting to the Clarkson had got me thinking about alternative in my w/shop for spirals on cutters upto 3/4". I'll keep watching for a Quorn.

Twas I what wrote as 'Aviemoron'. I should add that YahooGroups has a trio as Quorn_owners which is not confined to those who have more balls than most. Whilst I have a Quorn, I also have a Clarkson minus pedestal to squeeze in to my small workshop- and really the Quorn is redundant.

Sometime back I wrote and reflected that a Clarkson can be up and running for less than the price of the imported contraption and the cost of the castings of such as the Quorn, Kennet and Stent. It is a subject which is really too big to write a 3 line answer!

Twould fit nicely in my shop...! Watts the bargain? Dirk

Dirk, I suppose that paying =A3100 for a Clarkson MK1 wasn't too bad. Recent UK E-Bygums, have had much the same and the odd Stent and more recently part machined Stent castings. Now a Stent with a Quorn tool holder and a Quorn spindle with a varied set of pulleys and table stops is a nicer toy. Quite a few have heeded my advice. It's even nicer to get a 'Thanks, mate'

My mate has one of these 'hybrids' Borrowed it at one point. Was overcome with my emulsions- having to hand it back.

Norm

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Seems to have been moved, couldn't find it. Try giving us the actual page reference.

Some nice stuff on there but .... OMG, the WORST collection of greengrocers' apostrophes I have seen in a long time - even worse than recent editions of MEW. (Not even consistent though.)

When will people realise that **plurals do not take apostrophes**. It's worse than scraping fingers down a blackboard.

David

Quite right David. And my other pet hate is your when they mean you're...

Yes...almost as bad as the outbreak of text-speak in recent years, which has brought us contractions like OMG and the use of capitalization to provide EMPHASIS...

Oh dear - the grammar Nazis are on the prowl again

Regards, Tony

Welcome to the Age of Electronic Ignorance, where illiteracy reigns supreme.

Cliff Coggin.

Gosh. Do you think someone should warn the old codger from Enfield? :-)

Tom

Yes but if you BUY the machine instead of talking about it you can then use it to grind the extra apostrophes out.

I didn't see Doctors Dolittle and company, purveyors of high class English books amongst your companies of reference, only purveyors of engineering goods.

Bill Bennett BDS( Dunelm) wrote :-

'The Quorn must be mentioned. If you have made this grinder and can use it, then you have established your pedigree as a model engineer'

It also demonstrates that you probably have an excess of spare time on your hands.

Charles

Can it sharpen 14BA taps? If so then maybe I need one....

Alan

Alan, at the risk of further uncalled for remarks about having more than everyone else's alloted time- and what to do with it, Professor Chaddock made a MillDrill on a mangle of a Drummond lathe. He then set off to make an model aero engoine from solid and found that the 1/10th milling cutters were crippling him in replacements so he made them on the Quorn. He confessed that he could not actually re- sharpen them but making fresh ones is more ideal.

I wont be at the next ME Exhibition. One it is too far and two, I am ancient at 77 and have seen it all and three, I have property to check on in the North of Scotland and four, I am far from well from having a bug having been in France, HongKong and Dubai in the past few weeks. And secondly, I am too mean. I have no doubt that the SMEE will be there and if not, there will be plenty of Quorn constructors and 14BA folks to question.

Shooting off to a further tangent, my mate who has a hybrid Stent with Quorn overtones has fitted a Dremel into the space occupied by the Quorn spindle.

I think that this unpunctuated answer will suggest the way to go.

What you need is "Wampum".

According to Flanders and Swann, it will satisfy your requirements.

'Merde. Merde' Which is Flanders bit of it!

I did say that I had been in France!

Wampum is a collection of beads. Here, I believe that I drew one!

If you wish to play further 'silly ar$$es' wasn't it Holzapfell that wrote of using Hippopotamus hide for grinding and polishing purposes? This brings us back to Squaws on hides and they decorated with wampum!

Don't play puns with me- sunshine!

Been trying for years to remember zoological pythagoras anybody help?