Thread: Power S3 Surface grinder

Hi Jayson,

Congratulations on getting it back safely from Adelaide

Looks to be in pretty good condition. Does it have coolant?

I thought there was a mag chuck that came with it?

Regards
Ray

PS... You'll love having a surface grinder, great for stock preparation and finishing..

Nice looking machine Jayson. I will follow your exploits with interest.

I don't know if you have any information about the grinder's maker, Pauer and Co. but you may find something of interest here - "Power" precision grinders, special purpose machines / Pauer & Co. Pty. Ltd | National Library of Australia.

There are some interesting comments made here about Pauer history by Chris Vesper
Australian made machine tools - Page 7

BT

Oh my... what have i done...
I think I may have a problem
Today one of the blokes at work asked if I had a piece of steel he could use as a paperweight, nothing special, just something to hold some paper down.
Of course I did, that wouldn't be a problem... but it was.

The piece of steel I had was all covered in rust and mill scale which would make it totally unsuitable for weighing down paper, so off to the grinder it went.

These are the results:
Attachment 203070 Attachment 203071

There are a few scratches on one side as I have as yet not ground the chuck and it has a few dings but I want to make sure everything is OK first.

Ray, no there is no coolant on it yet but I do plan on rigging something up at a later stage. There was a magnetic chuck but it was remover 2 weeks previous to go on another grinder unfortunately. It does appear to be in fairly good condition, there are a few worn parts but I'm sure these will be easily fixed. I will post progress on this as I get to them.

Anorak Bob thanks for the links, some good reading there, hopefully I will have exploits worthy of your interest.

Still a lot for me to learn but I think it grinds fairly well considering I have not started fixing anything yet.

More soon hopefully

Jayson.

Yup. Definitely looks like a problem. Bring it back to Adelaide and I'll see if I can sort it for you (I think dressing the wheel should get rid of those marks).

Michael

Was doing a bit of surfing and came across when Repco bought out Pauer and Co... It was in 1960