Cool old pedestal grinder and stand

[1982fxr]

Not mine. Pretty cool though. Maker?

 

[MongoTA]

No idea, but for $75 I'd carry the dang thing home. Love it.
My pedestals are all utilitarian Baldor or equivalent. That one has a bit of style to it, I'd welcome that in my shop.

 

[FrankLee]

Here's a very nice one of those in the grinder thread:

Would always be cool to me to own US stuff, but these sadly don't exist over here in central Europe.
But I wanna show my big old Italian cast iron pedestal grinder (~1.5kW, 3 phase 400V). I use a 240 and a 600 grit flap wheel (awesome to prep stuff for polishing). It's really nice and rounded design, thinking about giving it a nicer restoration at some point (sand blasting, maybe chrome the left and right bearing holders and powder coat the middle... Would probably look really sweet). I'm actually not sure if it's cast iron or alloy (Italians used to be known for their high quality cast alloy/aluminium). In that case I might just polish some stuff. But I'm pretty sure the middle is cast iron.

 

[F-22]

Wow, haven't seen another one like that here, so I assume it must be really rare over the pond! Nice find, I'm very happy with mine. It is very high quality made.