New-to-me MTI Qualos surface grinder

[Pete O]

Those videos are great, very entertaining and educational. I'm finding that, quite apart from not having acquired the necessary skills, the equipment necessary to produce work to those sort of tolerances is out of my reach as a hobbyist; every clearing sale I have been to where there have been items of precision metrology equipment, they have been bid way out of my reach. Gear like granite angle blocks and verticality gauges shown in those vids I can only dream about. There were a pair of magnetic sine-plates like the ones in the video here, at the sale where I bought the grinder; they fetched more than I paid for the surface grinder itself. I shudder to think what a tangental wheel dresser would be worth here! Even a halfway decent surface plate has eluded me to date. I think my surface grinder will be just putting a nice finish on my inaccurate, out-of-square offerings for a good while yet. It's definitely fun to use though, and I'm enjoying just trying to make something flat.