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  1. #1
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    Question Unknown surface grinder in need of tlc

    hey everyone,

    as i am usually good at reverse engineering any machinery, a friend of mine came to ask my help on repairing the feed speed rate on his surface grinder. Never having played in one before i tried to find more information on the machine, but all parts and tags have been sanded down to have a nice water-soluble paint applied.. like this will last long!

    More detail. the x feed rate is adjusted by a small lever arm on the apron, and rotating it around will bring 2 sweet spot where it crawls around. He tried to adjust the speed of his hydraulic pump in the base, and got a marginaly better speed increase, but this came from 100psi and bumping it up to 140psi! Not good. Now i have to figure out the guts and innards of the new beast sitting in front of me.

    Can anyone point me either in the direction of a few schematics or better yet figure out the type of machine it is?

    thanks everyone!
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    Ive seen the insignia on the front panel somewhere before... might be Sven Jakobsen from Denmark, could be Kirloskar from India, or might be a Russian
    I would strip down the hydraulic valves & give a good cleanout, clean out the hydraulic tank of all grinding grit etc, new hydraulic oil etc. If a spool is dirty & sticking it wont shift properly. On some machines the grinding dust will drop down the back of the table & somehow get into the tank IF the tank sits INside the mc base

  3. #3
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    this is what i guess i will have to do. Although i prefer to have a manual this time i will be going in blind. Good thing i can reverse engineer anything somewhat easily.

    The oil tank is inside the base; i had assume they would have made the tank and valve seamless. With your pointer i can see where the problem might be, i will take it apart this weekend and see what i can make of it.

    thank-you!

    would anyone happen to have a schematic of a similar surface grinder?

  4. #4
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    Try and google" ELB-Schliff Werkzeugmaschinen", Germany. The Logo looks the same. Juergenwt

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