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[KimB]

looks like your belt sander belt needs tensioning and re aligning

I sorted that haha. I put a new belt on and all of a sudden it was running out.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Did a cylinder mower blade on a lathe w. grinder once, turning by hand...turned out great. I used to dress the bottom blade with a file, not much to it, well there could be, I was 15 at the time.

Accuracy across multiple cutting units was the key for us, I used to cut the greens with the triplex mower set at 2.4mm grass length. Get just one setting wrong and you were left with a discernible mark/variation.

Great satisfaction when you get it right and it looks/putts like on a billiard table.

 

[8ob]

I modified a mower cylinder grinder to sharpen chipper blades, brilliant bit of kit. Sweep can be adjusted so six pairs can be sharpened at the same time.

 

[Ali]

Accuracy across multiple cutting units was the key for us, I used to cut the greens with the triplex mower set at 2.4mm grass length. Get just one setting wrong and you were left with a discernible mark/variation.

Great satisfaction when you get it right and it looks/putts like on a billiard table.

Dream job. I’m talking Suffolk colt in Granddads shed.

 

[arther dailey]

The bed knife would make sense actually. I’ve never thought about how cylinder mowers cut. I did think about selling but I’d only donate all of the money to charity. It’s only fair seeing as I paid nothing for it. I’d be up for a trade maybe though.

speak to spencer..

 

[sako243]

I’ve never thought about how cylinder mowers cut

Badically think of them as scissors on steroids. They actually cut the grass between the two blades hence why how well they are matched together is of utmost importance.

"Normal" mowers generate an up draught which sucks the blades of grass up and that creates enough tension on the grass for the blade to slice (or more like tear) through it provided its sharp enough.

 

[Matchless]

you could trade it for a student gap piece...…………. and maybe a splashback...….. not a hint, not even thought about moving my student yet, tooooo heavy on my own and I don't think my dog is up for helping!

 

[fizzy]

I might have a drive plate and a travelling steady for a Colchester like yours. Will have to check if you need them.
Wondering if that grinder could be used for truing up sheet metal folder blades or similar?

 

[MetalMonkey]

Blakesley and Reid produced a number of grinders for various shears, blades and lawnmower cylinder sharpening applications, so some sort of blade grinder is a pretty safe bet.

 

[Matchless]

I did think that, or sharpening guilotene blades, maybe with a finer stone, or is that the bodger in me coming out!

 

[Screwdriver]

My mistake, this is what I was remembering.

Always wanted one, just to see it running. If anyone has one of those needs restoring, I’m all over it!

 

[KimB]

I might have a drive plate and a travelling steady for a Colchester like yours. Will have to check if you need them.
Wondering if that grinder could be used for truing up sheet metal folder blades or similar?

Oh that would be handy, I have just offered first dibs to a member to buy it. I’d always be looking for bits if I can afford them in this current climate.

 

[voipio]

GB Patent 979003: Machine for sharpening garden and like shears, scissors, knives and like cutting tools.

Int.Class B24B 3/36 Appl.No 2367262 Applicant LESLIE FRANCIS BLAKESLEY Inventor

979,003. Grinding; drilling machine details. L. F. BLAKESLEY. Sept. 6, 1963 [June 20, 1962; March 9, 1963], Nos. 23672/62 and 9450/63. Headings B3C and B3D. A grinding machine for sharpening shears, scissors, knives and the like comprises a grinding wheel 5, Figs. 2 and 3, rotatably mounted upon a stand 2, and a guide 6 extending adjacent the periphery of the wheel and providing a guiding edge 6a extending generally tangentially, or parallel to a tangent to the grinding wheel for supporting a blade to be ground, the guide being adjustable relative to the grinding wheel and means being provided for retaining the guide in an adjusted position. The grinding wheel is dish-shaped and carried on the vertical shaft 4 of an electric motor 3 suspended from the top of the stand. The guide consists of a plate of generally rightangled shape having a guide edge 6a for supporting the blade as it is moved across the edge of the grinding wheel and a limiting edge 7a which is inclined from the vertical for use when grinding the edge of the blade. The plate is secured to a mounting plate 9 connected by a screw 11 to a bracket 10, and a finger 13 extends from the mounting plate and receives a screw 16 which has an end abutting the .......

 

[fizzy]

Oh that would be handy, I have just offered first dibs to a member to buy it. I’d always be looking for bits if I can afford them in this current climate.

That's ok - grinder wouldn't have suited my purposes anyway.
I will dig them out see if they fit. Too small for my Triumph lathe.

 

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The manufacturers only went under a couple of years ago https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00475207