I have been on the prowl for a vee block spinner, perfect example of its use.

Always love watching surface grinder work. Came out perfect!

Hi Randy, Nice to have the tools to do jobs like that. Steve

Excellent Repair work -Jim

We all have junk and abused centers. Nice to get it back to where you feel confident using.

Hope you had a relaxing vacation. Glad you're home safely. Thanks for showing the inter workings.

I have never seen one apart. Neat how you did that. Nice to see you back in the shop. We had a tornado go over the house a week ago. I'm not used to natural disasters around here. Took some time to recover. Take care Randy

Nice. I need to modify a center for that clearance angle. I like that Suburban Tool center (just up the road here in Detroit). Good thorough overview as usual. Likely better than new now. _Dan_

Super useful jig Randy - great to see the benefits of a surface grinder. Cleaned up just beautiful.

Good job Randy.

That is a nice live center. Good job on restoring the surface.

Came out nicely. Good score, got it cheap as a fixer upper and made it good! Thanks for sharing.

interesting that its just that simple. thanks for showing us inside.

Nicely done Randy! You can grind that assembled by holding the body in a v block set at 30 degees and spinning it with a makeshift pulley in an electric drill and an o-ring drive to a plastic pulley pushed onto the center. That will give you the lowest runout on the center as it eliminates all eccentricities. ATB, Robin

Got a Suburban "Coffee Grinder" mill same type as yours with indexing plate and sine settings, great tool.... ;) Oh, BTW, it also has a turning handle... lol Well done on this grind

I have a large bull live center I need to regrind. Nice repair Randy

Great save!

Nice job! Beautiful work and knowledge.

I have to do that on some of my centers. Nice video!

Tool maintenance is part of being a good Machinist.

Good tool tune-up Randy

Very nice. Randy. I have a Royal just like that. I'll send mine to you for a regrind since you are now an authorized Royal Live Center service center......LOL

Nice repair

Always wondered what they looked like inside. Good video. Enjoyed!!

Nice grind job Sir. Good video. Never had one apart. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Randy, good to see you made it home safe. Sorry I missed you, and Lyle, at the meet and greet. I was about to purchase a small 6x12 surface grinder a few weeks ago, but sought divine guidance through prayer and was impressed not too. Got on Craigslist later that same morning and found a complete, fully functional, Lisle drill grinder for $110. GOD works in mysterious ways. I now have an email from the man with the surface grinder wanting me to call him, I think he wants to come down on the price, maybe. Great way you rescued that center, now I realize I might get more use out of a surface grinder than I thought. Or i could get you, Steven Lang, or Flathead Ron, to do my grinding. LOL Have missed seeing you in the shop. BTW I now have mutton chops. LOLOL

nice grind. would have liked to see inspection of the finished tool.

I think I'm going to get a new live center before I try to straighten out the current one. I'm still in the challenge of simply getting the DoAll to run, let alone trying to conquer flat and square

I think Royal offers regrinds of their centers free of charge.

Nice job, I like that grinding jig.

Looks like brand new now.

It would have been good to measure after you ground it to see the difference. Cheers Doug

Nice job Randy. My daughter had baby . Everyone is doing good. Are you interested in this Starrett master precision level? I don't seem to be able to contact Adam .

Nice job Randy. How did you pull it apart? Press a rod through the shank? I've got one that needs to come apart, but it's not drilled through that way.

Great job randy. Maybe I missed it, but had you considered grinding the centre in situ by using on o ring or suchlike to rotate the centre? This would give you lowest tir.

Nice repair. I don't know if I am coordinated enough to be able to spin the fixture and feed the table at the same time. :-)

Ron J Could you tell us what oil you used to lube those bearings? Thanks

Did you check the run out after you got it back together?

Neat too bad I don’t have the room for the surface grinder

Is there a market for live centers? I've had 3 new rohm mk5 for sale for a few weeks and seem to be hard to sell.

You didn't regrind the big taper did you?

Looking for a new place to hang out! Will you be my friend! (be careful how you answer).