I set up a new Yahoogroup for the Rockwell Delta Milwaukee Toolmaker
Grinder:

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/toolmakergrinder/

Just another resource specific to this little grinder. Would like to see
folks post on how they aquired them, what they use them for, what they have
done to them and what sorts of accessories they've got for them.

Marty

Marty Escarcega wrote:

I set up a new Yahoogroup for the Rockwell Delta Milwaukee Toolmaker
Grinder:

One word of advice about setting up a group. Unmoderated.
Otherwise forget about it. Good luck.

John Doe wrote in news:%QGKk.3922$ZP4.232
@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com:

Marty Escarcega wrote:

I set up a new Yahoogroup for the Rockwell Delta Milwaukee Toolmaker
Grinder:

One word of advice about setting up a group. Unmoderated.
Otherwise forget about it. Good luck.


I run several no problems, I restrict membership to keep the spammers out.
All my groups have run quite well.
Thanks!
Marty

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:27:30 GMT, Marty Escarcega
wrote:

I set up a new Yahoogroup for the Rockwell Delta Milwaukee Toolmaker
Grinder:

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/toolmakergrinder/

Just another resource specific to this little grinder. Would like to see
folks post on how they aquired them, what they use them for, what they have
done to them and what sorts of accessories they've got for them.

Marty


Marty! Good to see you still alive! Its been years dude!

Ive got a Enco copy of a Rockwell, picked it up for $50 not long ago,
could sure use a manual if anyone posts one

Gunner

Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.

On Oct 19, 3:31 pm, Gunner Asch wrote:

Ive got a Enco copy of a Rockwell, picked it up for $50 not long ago,
could sure use a manual if anyone posts one

Gunner

I have a PDF of a photocopy of it but lost the link, and dialup is
clogged down to 28K here today. The original file name is
[Rockwell-24-105-OperatingInstructions.pdf]. It's correct for my 1960
model of the grinder which wasn't the last or best.

The essentials:
Saybolt 60 spindle oil.
Use the front head pivot screw to take up all play. The rear one is
eccentric and tilts the wheel
Remove spindle end play with screw B, make sure spindle turns freely,
tighten locknut A. Whatever??. The PDF photocopy is blurry and my
grinder is missing the brass plate showing spindle construction.
SAE10 is good for the table oil cups.
Remove table weekly for cleaning by removing the stop screw holder.
It takes a 5" x 10" mag chuck.
"Although this machine is primarily a surface grinder, some limited
work can be done on it with cup wheels." There is a short explanation
of dressing the wheel but nothing on grinding. The various Lindsay
toolmaking books helped a lot with the geometries.

I learned surface grinding on a B&S #2 in night school. It only takes
a few minutes to learn to use one but I think it's worth the trouble
to have someone show you. The wheels self-destruct quite violently if
abused, as the next student on the machine loudly demonstrated. Mine
was used for production, worn out and dumped out behind the plant. I
got it for $50 plus $50 for the chuck. When disassembled, only the
base casting needs two people to lift. The owner said it would take up
to 0.005" per pass, possibly due to give in the worn head pivots. I
haven't pushed it past 0.002".

For the rest of you, these things are manual surface grinder X-Y bases
with large swiveling Quorn style heads, with flexibility for tool
grinding and the relative looseness and less than mirror finish that
goes with it.
Since I don't want to regrind the chuck I leave it on and set up tool
grinding fixtures including the swivel table on top of it, meaning it
has no advantage over a normal surface grinder. So far I've been able
to do almost everything with the 7" surface grinding wheel on the top
surface of the tool and haven't swiveled the head for clearance with a
dish or cup wheel.

Jim Wilkins

On Oct 19, 5:20*pm, Jim Wilkins wrote:
On Oct 19, 3:31 pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
Ive got a Enco copy of a Rockwell, picked it up for $50 not long ago,
could sure use a manual if anyone posts one
Gunner

I have a PDF of a photocopy of it but lost the link,...

Found it.
http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/...structions.pdf

This one has a direct head lift and metal ways.
IIRC the later model has a more convenient right-angle lift and Teflon
ways.

Jim Wilkins

I found something else. The patent on the swivel table is for the
entire machine and is VERY informative. It even shows how to grind
various types of cutters.
Go to www.uspto.gov, look up 2429250. Quicktime handled the tiff
format fine.

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:34:58 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

I found something else. The patent on the swivel table is for the
entire machine and is VERY informative. It even shows how to grind
various types of cutters.
Go to www.uspto.gov, look up 2429250. Quicktime handled the tiff
format fine.

You can look it up with Google Patent too:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=2429250

If you go to this page, there is a link along the left to
get all of it as a pdf file.

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
Remove no.spam for email

Gunner Asch wrote in
:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:27:30 GMT, Marty Escarcega
wrote:

I set up a new Yahoogroup for the Rockwell Delta Milwaukee Toolmaker
Grinder:

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/toolmakergrinder/

Just another resource specific to this little grinder. Would like to
see folks post on how they aquired them, what they use them for, what
they have done to them and what sorts of accessories they've got for
them.

Marty


Marty! Good to see you still alive! Its been years dude!

I tried emailing you Gunner, samo story, must toss my email in the bit
bucket! Hope you are well my friend!
Marty

On Oct 22, 1:28*pm, Leon Fisk wrote:
You can look it up with Google Patent too:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=2429250

If you go to this page, there is a link along the left to
get all of it as a pdf file.
Leon Fisk

Thanks, that works better. The Toolmaker grinder itself is 2,386,283.
The patents describe the designers' intent for almost every part and
feature. If you can wade through the patent language ("depends" means
hangs down, for example) they contain some very useful information
about how to use the machines.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:55:42 GMT, Marty Escarcega
wrote:

Gunner Asch wrote in
:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:27:30 GMT, Marty Escarcega
wrote:

I set up a new Yahoogroup for the Rockwell Delta Milwaukee Toolmaker
Grinder:

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/toolmakergrinder/

Just another resource specific to this little grinder. Would like to
see folks post on how they aquired them, what they use them for, what
they have done to them and what sorts of accessories they've got for
them.

Marty


Marty! Good to see you still alive! Its been years dude!

I tried emailing you Gunner, samo story, must toss my email in the bit
bucket! Hope you are well my friend!
Marty


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Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.