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Posted by David Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 03:12:37 :
Anybody have one of these? I've been looking for a good old American heavy cast iron bench grinder for a while because the Chinese ones vibrate a lot and have cheesy sheet-metal tool rests. I want one that runs smooth and has a good solid tool rest. I was at a flea market recently and there was a guy who had a substantial looking, old, dirty, and heavy bench grinder he wanted $10 for, and a big cutting torch and two sets of regulators and hoses in a milk crate he wanted another $10 for. I traded him some jumper cables for the whole lot. Then I looked at the nameplate on the grinder and saw that it was 440 volts, 3 phase. I googled the name and the phrase "The Driver Line" which was also on the nameplate and what came up said Walker Turner made an inexpensive line of home/hobbyist tools back in the '40s. Obviously, at $10, I'm not out much if I can't use this thing, but it also occurs to me that 440 volts 3 phase is not how the average home/hobbyist shop of the 1940s was wired, so maybe this is a decent industrial unit. Before I go to the trouble of cleaning it up, trying to make it spin on "ordinary" electricity, and go buy a pair of grinding wheels for it, it would be nice to have somebody tell me that they have such a grinder and it's a good one.
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