Parker Majestic #2 surface grinder

[Papa Charlie]

Nice David, you have a great piece of equipment there. I am a bit envious and it has been confirmed that you suck.

Wish I had the ability to take the other grinder off your hands. Close enough in WA but no place to put it and I think the boarder is still closed.

 

[DavidR8]

The oil helps to cool and insulate the magnets wiring.
Measure the hole and the roll pin will be a few thousandths larger

This is a ceramic magnet chuck so In this case I think the oil is purely to lubricate the springs and possibly the mag plates.


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[DavidR8]

Nice David, you have a great piece of equipment there. I am a bit envious and it has been confirmed that you suck.

Wish I had the ability to take the other grinder off your hands. Close enough in WA but no place to put it and I think the boarder is still closed.

Thanks! I’m pretty stoked to have lucked into it.
If it makes you feel better the other grinder went to a couple of brothers setting up a home shop in Vancouver.


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[Winegrower]

Congratulations, David...not to intrude, but I also yesterday joined the surface grinder club with a B&S #2B unit. It looks in pretty good shape and should not be a restoration project. It comes with a B&S 6x18 magnetic chuck and get this, an entire auto feed package currently sitting on the floor, that would turn this into a B&S #2 automatic. Not so sure I will take this step, as i really don’t do any lot runs of anything. I just want to make nice looking surfaces.

Possibly even better, the seller had an incredibly cute and tiny horizontal mill, maybe a 2.5’x2.5’ footprint, on wheels, as pristine as the day it was built. But it’s not clear who built it...he said it was a Japanese copy of a Hispano-Suisa (?) mill, but not positive. So it’s coming home tomorrow along with the grinder. Pictures later.

 

[DavidR8]

Congratulations, David...not to intrude, but I also yesterday joined the surface grinder club with a B&S #2B unit. It looks in pretty good shape and should not be a restoration project. It comes with a B&S 6x18 magnetic chuck and get this, an entire auto feed package currently sitting on the floor, that would turn this into a B&S #2 automatic. Not so sure I will take this step, as i really don’t do any lot runs of anything. I just want to make nice looking surfaces.

Possibly even better, the seller had an incredibly cute and tiny horizontal mill, maybe a 2.5’x2.5’ footprint, on wheels, as pristine as the day it was built. But it’s not clear who built it...he said it was a Japanese copy of a Hispano-Suisa (?) mill, but not positive. So it’s coming home tomorrow along with the grinder. Pictures later.

Wow! Big congratulations @Winegrower
Definitely want to see pics of your score!


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[DavidR8]

I reassembled the chuck this morning.
Cleaned out the dried grease

I was all set to fill it with oil and put the mag pack back in when I spied a hole in the corner of the base.

Wanting to follow their advice and put oil in the base, I enlarged the hole to take a 10-32 set screw. I dipped the set screw in Permatex and screwed it in snug.
Filled it with a quarter inch of 90w oil, applied more Permatex to the edge of the base and popped on the mag plates.
Other than the plates being about 30 lbs and very hard to hold, it was a dead easy job.
The actuation shaft is still lousy but that's a job for another day.

I then turned my attention to cleaning the bed. I stuck a rag in the coolant outlet and liberally brushed the bed with paint thinner. Like some kind of archaeology dig, layer, upon layer of grinding grit slowly came loose. I scooped it out the muck and eventually got it grit free.
About a half dozen rags later, it's pretty clean.
I, the other hand am less clean.

 

[DavidR8]

I lifted the table to inspect the ways.

They are in excellent condition with scraping marks fully visible and consistent along the length.
Unfortunately one of the steel tapes that moves the table was cracked almost all the way through.
So I need new drive tapes.

 

[sdelivery]

I need a new drive tape also...only the left one.

 

[sdelivery]

I reassembled the chuck this morning.
Cleaned out the dried grease

I was all set to fill it with oil and put the mag pack back in when I spied a hole in the corner of the base.

Wanting to follow their advice and put oil in the base, I enlarged the hole to take a 10-32 set screw. I dipped the set screw in Permatex and screwed it in snug.
Filled it with a quarter inch of 90w oil, applied more Permatex to the edge of the base and popped on the mag plates.
Other than the plates being about 30 lbs and very hard to hold, it was a dead easy job.
The actuation shaft is still lousy but that's a job for another day.

I then turned my attention to cleaning the bed. I stuck a rag in the coolant outlet and liberally brushed the bed with paint thinner. Like some kind of archaeology dig, layer, upon layer of grinding grit slowly came loose. I scooped it out the muck and eventually got it grit free.
About a half dozen rags later, it's pretty clean.
I, the other hand am less clean.

I use Simple Green to clean with.
It kicks jazz and doesn't bother your hands.
I use it with my stones when stoning ways and especially table tops, it makes a table top POP again (bright)

 

[DavidR8]

I need a new drive tape also...only the left one.

Have you been in touch with Parker Majestic?
Are they available?
(My fear is they aren’t and I’ll have to figure out something else)