dang did buy nothing come through for me today or what?
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i mean sure it’s some no-name generic (“worksmith” lol) but as long as it spins and doesn’t explode what the hell else do I need?
gonna figure out how it does speed control and see if i can make it variable for proper polishing too ^_^
@moira
Bench grinders are just so basic, I would think that if it turns on and spins it's just fine. Mine's a $10 (just looked, and the price sticker is still on it, LOL) rusty Delta from a Habitat Store. Works fine for my purposes.
Dang, there are still some Worksmith-branded tool accessories for sale out there. Not many, I presume old-stock? But out there.
Can't find anything about them yet tho'. Kinda wondering if they were somebody's store brand.
They were not! They were an early-2000s labeller of (no doubt imported) products, and maintained _several_ brands sold in Zellers and True Value and other hardware sellers.
This 8" grinder in particular though is a _fucking ghost_. I have found _none_ of them online. The 6" is still not incredibly uncommon but they _clearly_ did not sell half so many.
The partial label on it says 115 volts and 5A which maths out to 3/4 horsepower and I found a reference to a different dual-light model deep in archive.org's history that describes _that_ one as 3/4 HP, 8", and 3450 RPM, which seems to be pretty typical so I'm thinking this is probably that too. But it's an extrapolation.
The dual-lamp version is the 840078 which conveniently matches the number of a Kawasaki 8" bench grinder which is also 3/4HP also 3450 RPM. So that looks pretty clearly like a rebadged Kawasaki. Is this variant _also_ a rebadged Kawasaki?
@moira . . . only the duty cycle can tell you.