Banchard Grinding

[jbaiardo]

Anybody know the current rate for Blanchard Grinding a table saw top?

Thanks, jbaiardo

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Yes, the machine shop.

Instead of asking here,, call a sop that does it. Sometime they will cut you a break as a consumer compared to what they are billing a commercial customer. Ed

[jbaiardo]

I will call a machine shop, but its nice to have some idea of what to expect.

Thanks, jbaiardo

[Ken Lamb]

Depending on the tolerance (flatness you want) A table top with machined bosses on the bottom will run from $35 to $60.00 depending on the labor rate and how bad the surface is right now. Typically a table saw can be blanchard ground to be flat and parallel within .002 for the above prices. I run the business end of a small tool and die company. Part of my job is estimating from blue prints. We don't blanchard grind in house but I have some very good sources. You have to figure in shipping, so I would find local source. HTH, Ken

[Lew Hodgett]

Didn't know general machine shops still offered Blanchard grinding.

My guess is that if you have a common saw, you can probably buy a used complete unit, cannibalize it for parts for less than a grind job.

As an example, my landlord picked up an old Craftsman table saw less motor for $15.

Guy was going to give it away for nothing, but finally took the $15.

HTH

[The Davenports]

If there are machined bosses on the underside of the table that are not smacked to hell and gone, it's going to take about an hour...actually, likely less, but many small shops will have an unofficial one hour minimum charge.

Where are you? I have access to a 36" Blanchard and could do it for you for a case of beer.

Oh, I don't drink bud, either...I'm easy, but I ain't cheap.

Mike

[jbaiardo]

Thanks Ken,

I didn't realize it was that cheap.

[Lew Hodgett]

WHAT ! !

You don't drink the by product of a discontented horse?

That makes two (2) of us.

BTW, I also include Millers and Coors in that same list.

[Mike Hide]

At the risk of being considered an idiot [a conatation my wife sometimes uses ] what exactly is "blanchard " grinding .as opposed to general surface grinding ....mjh

[B a r r y]

With all the awesome micro and midi-brew out there, WHY drink the big (3)?

Barry

[Larry Blanchard]

There is no beer but porter, and stout is its prophet.

[klaatu]

[Silvan]

Time to drag this story out again... I had a science teacher in high school who had had a bit of Latin and a bit of French, and he found himself stationed in Mexico during his service in whatever branch of the military. He didn't speak a lick of Spanish. While at a bar, he was served a bottle of Dos Equis.

"Hmmmm... 'dos' looks like 'des' so it must mean 'from the.' 'Equis' looks a lot like 'equus' so it must mean 'horse.' I don't think I want to drink this beer!"

(dos equis is Spanish for "two Xes" (XX))

That guy was a trip. He was about to quit teaching and go sell life insurance or something, and he didn't give a rat's ass about anything. "Didn't do your project? That's OK, you get an A anyway. If you had done it, it would have been good."

(Wow that was a long time ago... The '80s seem so far away.)