Garfitts bottom blade grinder
Martinm
Mon, 26/09/2022
Garfitts bottom blade grinder, table top machine seems in good condition. Any views on
it would be appreciated. Photo attached
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Did not win bid for the item…
Did not win bid for the item. So, will keep searching.
thanks to wristpin for advice
I’ve never come across that…
I’ve never come across that Garfitts machine , one more often sees the Atterton and Ellis Angle Master. That said , if one is regularly servicing cylinder mowers, a bottom blade grinder / refacer , either stand alone or as part of a cylinder grinder , is an essential tool to have as even new blades when mounted on their sole plates can often need to be trued up. Messing about with paper shims between blade and sole plate is unsatisfactory and time wasting. As someone on this forum once said “one doesn’t just sharpen one blade of a pair of scissors”!
I see that the vendor is also selling an in-situ cylinder grinder, which doesn’t offer a bottom blade grinding facility , hence the need for the stand alone machine.