Okamoto Surface Grinder - $500 (petaluma, CA)

[MrWhoopee]

Okamoto Surface Grinder - tools - by owner - sale

$500 OBO 1978 Okamoto PFG-450C Surface Grinder 1HP, 3360 RPM spindle Includes Hitachi electromagnetic chuck Runs/works. Plugged in, under power, and available to demonstrate by appointment in the...

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Holy Crap!!!!

 

[rabler]

If only I was closer, I'd jump on that

 

[C-Bag]

Wow...ok, what’s wrong with it, and why does it have cutting disk mounted?

 

[DavidR8]

Wow...ok, what’s wrong with it, and why does it have cutting disk mounted?

My Parker Majestic came with an arbour and a stack of cutting discs.
Steve from Solid Rock has a video where he uses a surface grinder to cut steel.

 

[C-Bag]

My Parker Majestic came with an arbour and a stack of cutting discs.
Steve from Solid Rock has a video where he uses a surface grinder to cut steel.

?!?! Why would you do that?

 

[MrWhoopee]

?!?! Why would you do that?

You can cut HSS blanks etc. fairly accurately.

 

[DavidR8]

Yup I've done exactly that.