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Thank you! Cool PT story. My father was in the Army 102nd Antiaircraft Battalion. They were at numerous locations in Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines, following immediately behind the Marines as territory and airstrips were retaken. Their Bofors were trailer-mounted. Their...

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Thank you so much for that info!

Not inconceivable!

That's a good guess...I didn't think of that. I just tried with a butcher knife and can't see how it would have functioned. Spine down puts the cutting edge too far from the disk, and spine up puts the cutting edge on the disk hold-down washer. Of course, there may well be some parts missing.

This little hand-cranked disk sander was my father's. Not sure where he got it or if he ever used it, but he was an old school mechanic back when they rebuilt everything rather than replacing. He starting out maintaining generators for Bofors anti-aircraft guns in the Pacific Theater in WW2...

This little hand-cranked sander was my father's. He was an old-school mechanic back when they reconditioned everything rather than replacing, starting back when he maintained generators for Bofors anti-aircraft guns in WWII. I *think* he may have told me (about 50 years ago!) that it was for...