Sorry so long for the update, I was looking through these posts and realized I never updated this thread..... New plates did not fix my issue. The problem with this grinder was that the guy who had this unit before me put a 120 plug on the grinder. After I started looking at the motor, cord, etc I s...

I have gotten 3 sets of plates and knives, good quaulity ones of good hard steel, that have been professionally sharpened. On a side note... I used my tiny kitchen aid mixer vintage hobart made grinder attachment with freshly professionally sharped plate and knife, that were of good quality hard ste...

I would recommend replacing the plate and knife. You don't want to over tighten the retaining ring. It just has to be snug. I get all my plates and knifes from Speco out of Chicago. They are American made and they only charge $5 to re sharpen knifes and plates. The meat should go through really eas...

Hi, I bought used Berkel e-222 grinder. I got it cleaned up and put it all together. I tried to manually sharpen the plate and knife on a piece of granite and different sheets of sandpaper and emory cloth. I did fair job sharpending it... not great, the plate had some grooves in it that I need to ha...