Wilton 4103 2x72 "Square Wheel" Grinder

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Col Defender

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Well I'm pretty excited! On the exchange, I found this grinder and bought it from 710 who seems to be a really good guy. It's shipped, should arrive next week and I have high hopes that once I learn to use it I will be more efficient and perhaps faster and hopefully improve the quality of the knives I make compared to my Sears 2x42.

I have never even seen a Wilton but several BF people I know and trust told me it was an excellent machine and that 710 was a straight up guy. Anybody know why it is called "square wheel"? All the pictures show all the wheels to be round like most wheels I have seen are! :-)

Any comments? Anyone?

Thanks

Steve
 
I'm pretty sure its called a "Square Wheel" because of all the configurations using the different attachments.
Like if you have the platen on it with the top and bottom small wheels and the flat surface in the middle it forms
a square of sorts.
Ken.
 
There was a time where about the only grinders available were the square wheel or the burr king. Most makers had one or the other.

I think many modern grinders today are a copy/ improvement over the square wheel.

Hoss
 
My first grinder was a Wilton Square Wheel. I still use it a lot. Congratulations on your purchase.
 
I have a "Bee Grinder" which is still made in Canada that is some the same. This Bee has been an excellent grinder that will allow at sorts of grinding freedom. About ten years ago I changed mine over to variable speed. One is a clone I built. Both are great machines to work with. I'm sure the Wilton you are getting will be fine. Frank
 
I had a Wilton as my first three wheel grinder .. Grinders have jumped so far ahead that it lags behind a little . I like the two wheel Platen it had . If he didn't have the 8 inch contact wheel with it . I have one that I can sell you
for a fair price.
 
does anyone know where I can get a small wheel attachment for the jet 4103.I have been told it is a square wheel copy
 
While most of my grinding is done on a Bader, I'm still running 2 square wheels. One of them I bought in the mid
70's. Just this year I slowed that one down with variable speed. The other one I have laying on its side as a horizontal
grinder--- works great.
Ken.
 
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