Unusual find from engineers home
Plasma | 28/03/2019 17:17:06 |
443 forum posts 1 photos | Hi all, I was given this "lump" of metal today by a friend renovating a house belonging to an ex engineer. He found it in the bedroom destined for a builders skip. Thankfully he thought of me and lugged it home. It is seriously heavy, having a cast iron body, gauge plate table and the flat belt pulley on the opposite end is to run a finisher belt on, there being a 4 step pulley inside the head. Could it be a headstock casting modified for the job? Or is it completely made for its purpose. Extremely well engineered and looks unused. |
AJW | 28/03/2019 19:07:36 |
![]() 388 forum posts 137 photos | It's got that headstock look about it, wood turning origin? Looks useful!
Alan |
Jeff Dayman | 28/03/2019 20:12:38 |
2356 forum posts 47 photos | Might be a headstock-intent device originally but as-is I'd say it would make a superb disc and drum sander for either metal or wood. If you use it for wood, don't use it for ferrous metal - the sparks can set the sawdust alight - don't ask me how I know. Congratulations for saving it from the skip! well done. |
Ian S C | 29/03/2019 09:12:55 |
![]() 7468 forum posts 230 photos | Also, as I warned the blokes at the Menzshed a couple of days ago, if you use it for metal, then wood you might end up with metal imbedded in the wood, which might not be too good for chisel work etc. Ian S C |
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