https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/tls/5208333629.html
Look familiar?
Commerce … I guess that’s closer to DFW than any other metro area, but it’s a wee ways away from Dallas.
Seems like a lot for a very old machine. And just seeing that wire wheel on it gives me the shivers.
I’ve had the misfortune of having had to spend a lot of time using a buffer for a batch of parts I ordered made. There’s absolutely no tool meaner, nastier, or more likely to hurt you.
In a time long ago in a distant land when taking Metal shop one summer, one Darwinian knuckle head, using a grinder this size, decided to “clean” his motor cycle chain. I had the unfortunate experience of seeing the wire brush grab the chain, whip around violently knock him to the floor and take chucks out of a concrete wall and floor before anyone could hit the emergency kill switches around the room. He was “lucky” in it merely broke his forearm and collarbone, just missing his head and had thrown him tot he side out of the iron whips path.
Maybe I was fortunate, I now have great respect for unguarded equipment.
I was at DMS this morning and saw that we have a pedestal mounted buffer/grinder in the machine shop area that looks very much like what is on Craigslist. It is not hooked up, does not have any buffing or grinding wheels mounted on it.
We should consider getting this one working before we acquire another one.
who said anything about acquiring another?
I said, and I quote:
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