[TheForge] Parts search, 1818 parts on Goog?

Wed May 15 22:28:03 EDT 2013

I just picked up a monsterous Metabo angle saw/grinder.  Takes what 
looks to be 12" wheels.  I plugged it in, hit the switch and blew the 
breaker.  I think I am going to like this toy.  $10.

On 5/15/2013 7:08 AM, Ron Childers wrote:
> I have a really big Mexco cut off grinder I got from an old junk yard
> and the guard was removed and lost. I could find nothing on Google. Any
> ideas?
>
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Fels&
> Phoebe Palmer
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:41 AM
> To: mspencer at tallships.ca; Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Parts search, 1818 parts on Goog?
>
> Bruce and Mike;
> Same time, same station. ..Same old tunes.
> I was gonna cut one down to fit,
> but i think i found one of the same dimensions online at Repco.
> But... no price/sign up and register and submit an inquiry on provided
> form 36-B.
> I want more out of the insufferable/ubiquitous cloud, Damnit!
>
> On May 14, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>
>
> PF wrote:
>
>> Why can't i enter a part name, manufacturer, model number, etc...and
>> get the usual 10 pages of links?
>
> I've had surprisingly good luck finding details about old stuff. [1]
> Well, maybe  50%?  That's pretty good, I think.
>
> But mailing lists, newsgroups and (I suppose) "social media" such as
> Yahoo Groups devoted to a specific subject can turn up that guy who
> knows where there's a garage-full of the thing you're looking for.
>
> Part of the problem lies with the IT managers at corporate entities.
> If Joe Blow, J. Random Tech-demi-god, or your friendly neighborhood
> blacksmith creates a web site, they just write HTML files, take photos
> and link it all together. Google spiders it and you an find it.
>
> But a big corp has a team of web designers, a pointy-haired web manager,
> a separate manager for IT resources, executive policy, demands from
> marketing and a lot of coders and engineers.  What shakes out of all
> that (see "policy" and "pointy-haired") is 'A new web experience" for
> the user: flash, database backends, interactive javascript, inline code
> and more.  It's all designed to suck the individual user into the
> "experience" (the new buzzword).  Even when the data *is there*, you
> have to wade through dancing hamsters, animated doo-doo,
> slick-brochure-type bumpf and more to find it.
>
>> Yaaaa...OK, there's no money in dealing with fools like me, but...
>
> Some 7 years ago, my Black&  Decker angle grinder that I bought about
> 1978 wore out a bearing. Called B&D.  They had the grinder in their
> database.  The Guy said, "Wow, that's an *old* one".  Huh. 30 years
> and it's old?   I had to go to a general-purpose bearing&  seal
> shop to get the bearing itself. B&D didn't have it.
>
> About 1978, my 1925-era [2] B&D angle grinder broke a brush holder.
> So I went in to Halifax in person to the (now vanished) B&D repair depot
> and asked for the part.  The guy went to a long shelf, running his
> finger along the ring binders of micro-fiche, then along the fat,
> plastic-bound parts books, along the soiled, thin, paper-covered parts
> books....
>
> Finally, at the very end of the shelf, he pulled out this grimy,
> grease-stained, tattered thing of about a dozen pages, flipped through
> it, found my grinder, found my part.  He had 3 on the shelf so I bought
> 2.  Not like that any more, is it?
>
>> Any suggestions as to a technically/industrially oriented search
>> service?
>
> Try a jewelry list, group, blog, whatever?  Or make a brush from a
> larger one.  I had the generator fail on my Land Rover when I was in
> Sydney, ca. 400 miles from home and getting dark. I stumbled over a
> garage that would rent bay space for not very much. So I walked over to
> Canadian Tire, bought two or three brushes for [??] and hacksawed&
> filed one of them to fit the gen. I was still working years later when
> we sold the Rover.
>
> Every time you fix an unfixable old thing, it's a pointy stick in the
> eye of marketing droids. Also undermounds the economy [3], of course.
> :-)
>
>
> - Mike
>
>
> [1] My Atlas Copco compressor is an exception. Absolutely nothing on
>     Google about it.  I finally found a guy whose buddy worked at
>     Atlas Copco, who had full data base access. He eventually reported
>     back that there is no record anywhere in their files of their ever
>     having made that model.
>
> [2] I have a tool catalog from 1925 that has my B&D 1/2" drill in it.
>     It's the same ponderous, cast-aluminum style as the grinder so I'm
>     guessing the grinder is the same vintage.  Both tools work fine.
>
> [3] Like Puce Stamps.
>
> http://i.ebayimg.com/t/WALT-KELLY-POGO-PUCE-STAMPS-BLOCK-GUARANTEED-WORT
> HLESS-BIG-ZERO-1962-ULTRA-RARE-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjc1/$(KGrHqJ,!ooFBsb45j+SB
> Qpm+RnnCg~~60_35.JPG
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