Subject: TOOL GRINDER

From: PPIERCE <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 16:40:18 -0700

HI:

YOU HAD PURCHASED A TOOL GRINDER AT THE EASTEC SHOW FROM TRAVERS TOOL.
HAVE YOU RECEIVED IT?
DOES IT DO WHAT YOU HAD HOPED?

I FAXED A CATALOG REQUEST TO TRAVERS TOOL ON MAY 26 BUT AS OF THIS
DATE (6/13) HAVE NOT HEARD FROM THEM.

I FAXED MSC FOR A CATALOG ON A MONDAY AND RECEIVED IT ON WEDNESDAY!!!

PAUL IN AJ AZ

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From: PPIERCE <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:02:34 -0700

Randolph Lee wrote:
> 
> In article <[email-masked]>, PPIERCE <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> No need to shout Paul Im' here
> Sorry thats how I learned to type.. G.I. Typewriters didn't have lower case
on them in 1953...  I try-when in a hurry I slip back to the old days...

> Re the catalog... give em a voice call on that to the 800 number...
>

The abstract sheet showed up in todays mail (requested it 5/26/96).
Really a rough drawing (sketch)...
 
> the RomerIII is working well but the documentation is the pits... written
> by the inventor who assumes that every one who buys the unit (which is not
> a grinder itself but rather a micro adjustable jig that works with your
> existing grinder) is a veteran tool maker... I have enough of a background
> in making my own tools to use it but even I had to scratch my head and sit
> through a beer or three to figure out how to cut a concave radius to make
> a rounding over bit...

Gosh - the Dr. turned me into a teetotaler, not beer, along with 
no sugar and lo-fat - UGH!!!

I would assume that a narrow wheel is required for that concave radius
(I'not a tool grinder) in the rounding over bit.

> I was able to convert a trashed 3/4 endmill into a
> ball end mill in less than 10 min though... that use was quite obvious...
> as is using the micro adjust protractor as a replacement for the standard
> on on the carbide grinder for normal brazed carbide or HSS lathe bits ...
> 
> the tool is well made and I think worth the $200 promo price...(you might
> still talk them into the promo price if you took the "I saw it at the show
> and realy liked it" aproach) at $250 I would insist on a good set of
> instructions though... Travers says they are aware of the problem and have
> assigned inhouse people to a rewrite of the manual.

They should also assign someone to handle catalog requests.

> ~R
> Windshadow Engineering

Paul in AJ AZ
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From: [email-masked] (Randolph Lee)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:55:50 -0400

a rounding over bit... I was able to convert a trashed 3/4 endmill into a

~R
Windshadow Engineering