I have bagged the elusive Franken-Buffer!

[HoosierBuddy]

Yeah...so...Lost Creek Machine was running a sale and I saw this and it just seemed to have my name on it...even though I had NO FREAKING IDEA what it was.

It arrived via UPS today, well boxed as usual (THANKS MATT!) and I tore into it like a kid on Christmas morning.

What I got for my $ is a 3/4 HP single phase Baldor buffer, that someone has mounted an Aussie Multitool brand 2X36 belt sander attachment to. Now the Multi-tool is actually designed to be a bench grinder attachment NOT a buffer attachment, but that didn't stop the previous owner, and I don't intend to let it stop me either. Things that Matt included in the box, but not in the photo INCLUDE...the complete (unopened) miter table kit that mounts to the sander attachment AND the (never used) disk sander attachment that is supposed to go on the end of this bad boy.

I'm pretty stoked about this one. I'll keep y'all appraised with some more pictures once I get it into my Lab-or-a-tory. (Insert manic laugh here).

Phil

 

[SantaAna12]

Hah! I bit on your title.

"And what did you get from the monster?"!!!

Actually looks pretty damn serious. Congrats!

 

[1950mercury]

I dont think thays a buffer. All the baldor buffers ive seem have longer shafts. I think it was always a sander

 

[DocsMachine]

I dont think thays a buffer. All the baldor buffers ive seem have longer shafts.

-Note the end cap on the bare end. It may not have the long shafts, but it was, in fact, intended to be a buffer.

It's possible, I suppose, that somebody took a grinder, pulled the wheel covers, and replaced them with a spare set of buffer end caps, but the buffers usually have a larger diameter shaft as well.

Doc.