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Dormer 108 Drill Grinder Resurrection

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awemawson:
Several years ago (2009) I bought a very nice Dormer 108 drill grinder, complete with it's mounting cupboard / plinth thingy. All in very nice 'ready to work' condition. Purchase included delivery at seller risk.

This is what arrived

awemawson:
All very annoying as I had work for it to do. Seller had literally lain it on a home made pallet and put a bit of plastic 'pallet wrap' round it, and it had been smashed to pieces in the pallet handling system. Not the carriers fault, and the seller did the decent thing and refunded and dragged the carcass away.

No where could I find one quite as nice at an acceptable price, but I did find one without the plinth that sadly had had the 'Hammerite' treatment but was basically sound.

It arrived in a nicely made crate, bolted to it's base - it just needed mounting on something. Well time ticked by, other things took priority, and it sat in it's case until yesterday in one of my containers.

A friend is moving house, and was desperate to store some personal effects safely, so I offered to clear out a load of 'stuff' that should have gone on eBay years ago, and free up half a container, so we started digging. Three wood working dust extractors, a J&S 540 grinder extractor, a 205 litre drum of neat cutting oil and a few other bits and pieces got shifted into the stable temporarily, and put on eBay at 99p starting prices  :ddb:

awemawson:
Now having dug deeply into the container, the crate with the Dormer 108 Drill Sharpener came to light - I'd been wanting to get it out but it wasn't easy with all the other stuff in the way.

It's suffered a bit from storage, with evidence of condensation rust on the bare metal, but I think that it is eminently recoverable, so that is what I intend to do.

Great shame I didn't retain the broken one as the plinth would have been handy as probably would a few other bits, but the insurers wanted it all back for inspection.

So this is how the second one came out of it's coffin after six years:

awemawson:
Shame, as a quick spray with Shell Ensis before I put it in the container would have stopped all that, but we are where we are  :bang:

It's mainly superficial rust - not like the rusticles on the Titanic  :clap:

Rather than a chuck, it uses 'fingers' to hold in the flutes of the drill close to he cutting edge, and either a male or female centre for the other end.

awemawson:
I have a machinists cabinet that I will probably mount it on, but it'll need putting on castors, and it's current contents redeploying. However I can't get at it at the moment as there is a mountain of cardboard packing waiting for the next bonfire  :scratch:

This probably will be a slow project as it's not top priority - one I'll dip back into several time over quite a period, as I've a few things on the go at the moment  :bugeye:

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