Centerless Grinder Mechanic in Carson City?

Hey guys. This is a random request but I figured I would turn to the HAMB. My lady's dad owns a machine shop in carson NV that specializes in centerless grinding. He lives out in CA and hired a guy to manage his NV shop. This guy ran it into the ground, and now he wants to bring the whole operation back to CA.

He has a few Cincinnati centerless grinders, ID and OD, with a thru feed. They need basic maintenance, truing, and some other odds and ends. He would prefer to have the machines repaired before we freight them back to CA.

I know centerless grinding has gone the way of the dinosaurs but if there is anybody out there who can still tune these things, my money is on the guy being a HAMBer.

 

I can "tune" one but its one helluva drive to get to work.

Ought to be someone old enough around there to do it, maybe an old retired HAMBer could use an extra buck.

 

You might find someone on The Home Shop Machinist forum or Practical Machinist to take care of them.

 

Thank you. I will check it out.

 

Back in the days when the airplanes I worked on had pistons, we had a centerless grinder for wrist pins and valve stems. I didn't know there was an ID centerless grinder. Hows that work?

 

No clue man. I have only seen the OD ones. I'm just relaying the message. I will ask him though.

 

btt

 

There is a vo-tech machine shop school in Reno .I saw a story on PBS not PBR
They talked about the lost art of machining . Might be a place to look.

 

will do. thank you

 

Centerless grinding hasn't gone the way of dinosaurs by any means. There's hundreds of centerless shops all over the country turning out tons of stock every day.

That said, I can't imagine why anyone would want to do a bunch of work on any sort of grinders and then load them on a truck for shipping. General maintenance maybe, but as far as setting one up to grind, that would be a waste of time as none of the adjustments would hold during shipping.

In any case, pick your mechanic carefully. The world is full of characters who claim they can fix any damn machine that's ever been made. The problem when you cross one of those jacklegs with a centerless, there's a real good chance him and anyone else near him can end up dead or maimed for life. Imagine a 40 pound grinding wheel exploding in your face and simultaneously throwing a piece of round stock at 100 mph in whatever direction it happens to go, and you've got a good picture of what a centerless can do in a second or less when someone messes with it and doesn't know exactly what they're doing.

 

Hmmm. I will run this by him.

 

and out in CA the centerless stuff is headed out of state or over seas