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Hi all,
I have just bought a BRL manual cylinder grinder and have no information on its use.
Its quite a heavy machine and has a hand operated grinding head traversed along guide rails.
The cylinder sits between centres but there is no way of powering its rotation, I’m assuming you move the cylinder under the grindstone one blade at a time.Any ideas about operation or set up would be much appreciated
Thanks MickAttachments:
You are correct in your assumption that it is a single blade grinder and the blades are moved or indexed under the grinding wheel one at a time. It can also be set up to reface the bottom blade or bedknife and it looks as it is set for that operation at present.
For cylinder grinding it’s mounted between centres and each blade in turn rotated against an adjustable stop so as to present the cutting edge to the wheel at the correct angle while the wheel is traversed along its length.
I’ve got another version of your machine that I use solely for bottom blades up to 24” and another model BRL that has 36” spin grinding capability as well as bottom blades.
The original manufacturer of your machine was Blakesley and Reid who also made sharpening equipment for sheep shears. In the late 60s / 70s they became BRL and went through a couple of changes in ownership, finally disappearing in the 80s.
My 36″ machine in action.Attachments:
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